Christopher Bollas

When the Sun Bursts by Christopher Bollas is a compelling work where a leading psychoanalyst shares his experiences working with schizophrenic patients, demonstrating the effectiveness of talk therapy as a treatment. Many schizophrenics experience their condition as one of radical incarceration, mind-altering medications, isolation, and dehumanisation. At a time when the treatment of choice is anti-psychotic medication, world-renowned psychoanalyst Christopher...

Basing his view on the object relations theories of the British School of psychoanalysis, Christopher Bollas examines the human subject's memories of its earliest experiences (during infancy and childhood) of the object, whether it be mother, father, or self. He explains in well-written and non-technical language how the object can affect the child, or "cast in shadow," without the child...

In his latest book The Infinite Question, 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 provides both...

In 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 provides both patient and analyst...