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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824473403321

Autore

Bollas Christopher

Titolo

Catch them before they fall : the psychoanalysis of breakdown / / Christopher Bollas ; with Sacha Bollas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-06954-4

1-283-89466-1

1-135-08731-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BollasSacha

Disciplina

616.8917

Soggetti

Mental health consultation

Mental illness - Prevention

Psychoanalysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Broken selves -- Signs of breakdown -- Guidelines -- Emily -- Anna -- Mark -- Histories and the apres coup -- Time -- Emotional experience -- Reflection, explanation and working through -- Psychic change.

Sommario/riassunto

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