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Autore |
Bollas Christopher |
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Titolo |
Catch them before they fall : the psychoanalysis of breakdown / / Christopher Bollas ; with Sacha Bollas |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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0-203-06954-4 |
1-283-89466-1 |
1-135-08731-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (153 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mental health consultation |
Mental illness - Prevention |
Psychoanalysis |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Broken selves -- Signs of breakdown -- Guidelines -- Emily -- Anna -- Mark -- Histories and the apres coup -- Time -- Emotional experience -- Reflection, explanation and working through -- Psychic change. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 po |
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