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The Evocative Object World
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 24.99In The Evocative Object World Christopher Bollas 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 traditionally been regarded as 'the outside world'. Moving from the fundamentals of the free... more...
Free Association
Icon Books 2002; US$ 7.95Psychoanalysis has become in the West the dominant paradigm for understanding our emotional lives. But do we know what it's all about? Using examples from popular culture and everyday experience, each book in the series explains a psychoanalytical concept and its ability to illuminate the nature of human society and culture. more...
The Infinite Question
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 24.99In his latest book Christopher Bollas uses detailed studies of real clinical practice to illuminate a theory of psychoanalysis which privileges the human impulse to question. From earliest childhood to the end of our lives, we are driven by this impulse in its varying forms, and The Infinite Question illustrates how Freud's free associative method... more...
The Freudian Moment
Karnac Books 2007; US$ 15.95Bollas eloquently argues for a return to our understanding of how Freudian psychoanalysis works unconscious to unconscious. Failure to follow Freud's basic assumptions about psychoanalytical listening has resulted in the abandonment of searching for the 'the logic of sequence' which Freud regarded as the primary way we express unconscious thinking.... more...
The Christopher Bollas Reader
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 31.99This reader brings together a selection of seminal papers by Christopher Bollas. Essays such as " The Fascist State of Mind," " The Structure of Evil," and " The Functions of History" have established his position as one of the most significant cultural critics of our time. Also included are examples of his psychoanalytical writings, such... more...
China on the Mind
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 26.95Several thousand years ago Indo-European culture diverged into two ways of thinking; one went West, the other East. Tracing their differences, Christopher Bollas examines how these mentalities are now converging once again, notably in the practice of psychoanalysis.?? Creating a freely associated comparison between western psychoanalysts and... more...
The Freudian Moment
Karnac Books 2013; US$ 15.95With a new foreword by Andre Green.Bollas eloquently argues for a return to our understanding of how Freudian psychoanalysis works unconscious to unconscious. Failure to follow Freud's basic assumptions about psychoanalytical listening has resulted in the abandonment of searching for the 'the logic of sequence' which Freud regarded as the primary way... more...
Catch Them Before They Fall: Psychoanalysis of Mental Breakdown
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 26.95In 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... more...
New Informants
Karnac Books 1996; US$ 31.95Confidentiality is one of the cornerstones of psychotherapy, and yet this confidence is betrayed with increasing regularity. This text attempts to answer three questions: how did this loss of privacy come about?; what does it mean for clinical practice?; and what can be done about it? more...
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