Towards a philosophy of psychosis -- The subjective experience of the person with schizophrenia -- Philosophical questions about the theory of psychosis in the early Lacan -- Paternal metaphor and ordinary psychosis -- Theoretical and therapeutic implications of the later Lacan's complex theory of psychosis -- A post-Lacanian view on schizophrenia -- Hegel as Lacan's source for necessity in psychoanalytic theory -- Hegel and Lacan on paranoia and the question of how to avoid the dangers inherent in ideas of social reform -- Phenomenology, linguistic intentionality, affectivity and Villemoes' new therapy for schizophrenics -- Self-referencing in the language of the severely mentally ill -- Reflections on the concept of "paternal metaphor" at the occasion of Lacan's and Schatzman's analyses of Schreber -- The concept of "a-father" or the psychological origin of mental breakdown in Schreber and Hölderlin -- A Lacanian interpretation of Karon's psychoanalytic treatment of persons afflicted with schizophrenia -- On Villemoes' Lacanian inspired treatment method of persons afflicted with schizophrenia -- On Prouty's successful treatment method for persons afflicted with schizophrenia.