Concept
Blank psychosis
A notion introduced by Jean-Luc Donnet and André Green in 1973, from their study of a single interview, for a psychotic core without delusions or hallucinations: blanks and blocking in thought, in which the capacity to think is emptied out under the pressure of objects felt as intrusive or lost. They saw it as a possible first stage from which a more florid psychosis may later develop.
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introduced by
- André Green 1973 Green and Jean-Luc Donnet put forward blank psychosis in L'Enfant de ça (1973): a psychotic core without delusion or hallucination, marked by blankness and paralysis of thought.
- Jean-Luc Donnet 1973 Donnet put forward blank psychosis jointly with André Green in their co-written L'Enfant de ça (1973).