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Christopher Bollas - Catch Them Before They Fall: The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown - 9780415637206 - V9780415637206
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Catch Them Before They Fall: The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown

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Description for Catch Them Before They Fall: The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown Paperback. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: JMAF; MMJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 135 x 197 x 10. Weight in Grams: 172.

In this exploration of a radical approach to the psychoanalytical treatment of people on the verge of mental breakdown, Christopher Bollas offers a new and courageous clinical paradigm.

He suggests that the unconscious purpose of breakdown is to present the self to the other for transformative understanding; to have its core distress met and understood directly. If caught in time, a breakdown can become a breakthrough. It is an event imbued with the most profound personal significance, but it requires deep understanding if its meaning is to be released to its transformative potential.

Bollas believes that hospitalization, intensive medication and CBT/DBT ... Read more

This book will be of interest to clinicians who find that, with patients on the verge of breakdown, conventional psychoanalytical work is insufficient to meet the emerging crisis. However, Bollas’s challenging proposal will provoke many questions and in the final section of the book some of these are raised by Sacha Bollas and presented in a question-and-answer form.

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Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
152
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
182g
Number of Pages
146
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415637206
SKU
V9780415637206
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About Christopher Bollas
Christopher Bollas, PhD, is a psychoanalyst practising in London. Sacha Bollas, PsyD, is a psychologist practising in Los Angeles.

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