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Christopher Bollas
Christopher Bollas' notebooks span half a century. Never originally intended for publication, they represent the private stream of ongoing thinking that has accompanied his clinical practice and extensive published work…
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Christopher Bollas proposes ordinary conversation as a distinct literary genre that shares certain formal qualities with poetry, prose, and drama. We converse with others and with ourselves, and he capitalises…
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Steven Jaron
This book provides a clear and accessible overview of the seminal clinical thinking of Christopher Bollas.
Sarah Nettleton (Psychoanalyst in London, UK.)
The Metapsychology of Christopher Bollas: An Introduction explores Bollas’s extraordinarily wide contribution to contemporary psychoanalysis.
Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment sees Christopher Bollas apply his creative and innovative psychoanalytic thinking to various contemporary social, cultural and political themes.
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Taking the reader right to the heart of psychotherapy, this text examines the mysterious aspects of the self that are revealed by analysis. The author focuses on the nature and…
Uses detailed studies of real clinical practice to illuminate a theory of psychoanalysis which privileges the human impulse to question. This title includes transcripts of real analytical sessions, accompanied by…
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In this book, Bollas examines how people educate one another in the idioms of their unconscious lives and considers the nature and consequences of the traumas that inhibit the freedom…
Thousands of years ago Indo-European culture diverged into Western and Eastern ways of thinking. Bollas examines how they are converging again in psychoanalysis.
Builds on Freud’s account of dream formation, combining it with perceptive clinical, theoretical and cultural insights to show how the psychoanalytical method can provide a rich understanding of what has…
Forces of Destiny examines and reflects on one of the most fundamental questions - what is it that is unique about us as individuals? How does it manifest itself in…
First published in 1987, The Shadow of the Object remains a classic of the psychoanalytic literature written by an original thinker. The concept of the unthought known has influenced many…
Taking Freud’s model of dreamwork as a model for all unconscious thinking, Bollas argues that we dreamwork ourselves into becoming who we are. He illustrates how patient and analyst can…
Taking Freud’s theory of dream work as a model for unconscious thinking, Bollas argues that we dream work ourselves into becoming who we are. He illustrates how the analyst and…
Essential Aloneness presents a series of lectures on DW Winnicott delivered by Christopher Bollas in the 1980s to students and staff of the Institute of Child Neuropsychiatry at the University…
Bollas aboga elocuentemente por el retorno a nuestra comprension de como funciona el psicoanalisis freudiano de inconsciente a inconsciente.
A leading psychoanalyst shares his experiences working with schizophrenic patients to show how effective talk therapy can be as a treatment
Offers a history of hysteria that weaves its well-known features - repressed sexual ideas; indifference to conversion; over-identification with the other - into the hysteric form. Through a rereading of…
A collection of essays that reflects the multi-dimensional influence of Christopher Bollas. It reveals the possibilities for self-expression and growth that figure in the process of object relations and shows…
Christopher Bollas galvanises our understanding of what happens when people encounter the objects - the endlessly variegated content - of external reality. This volume reveals the possibilities for self-expression and…
Christopher Bollas,Sacha Bollas
This book is an exploration of a radical approach to the psychoanalytical treatment of people on the verge of mental breakdown.
A tour de force from Christopher Bollas. Three essays on three distinct character types: the Narcissist, the Borderline, the Manic Depressive.
Andre Green,Christopher Bollas
Argues for a return to our understanding of how Freudian psychoanalysis works unconscious to unconscious. In this book, the author also argues, realizes a phylogenetic preconception that has existed for…
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E Mark Stern
Explores the life work and thought of therapists who have played key roles in furthering postmodern perspectives on self experience. Through five engaging conversations, readers discover how discontinuities in self…
Professor Christopher Bollas (Member British Psychoanalytical Society and Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytical Research)
In Being a Character, Christopher Bollas argued that Freud’s vision of the dream process is a model for all unconscious mental experience. In Cracking Up he extends his exploration of…
Edward W Said
The voice of the late Edward Said can still be heard in all its trenchant vitality. -Irish Times Books of the Year
Hosting the likes of Bollas, Castoriadis, Cremerius, Dolto, Fachinelli, Kernberg, Kristeva, Laplanche, Roudinesco, and others, Anthony Molino and Sergio Benvenuto have convened some of the world’s most prominent psychoanalysts in…
