{"title":"Christopher Bollas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristopher Bollas\u003c\/strong\u003e offers profound insights into the human psyche through works that blend philosophy and psychology. His writing explores the complexities of selfhood, unconscious processes, and the intricacies of human experience with clarity and depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thought-provoking reflections that challenge traditional understandings of the mind, inviting a deeper engagement with the questions that shape our inner lives. Titles like \u003cem\u003eThe Infinite Question\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWhen the Sun Bursts\u003c\/em\u003e exemplify his unique approach to contemporary psychological thought.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"when-the-sun-bursts-by-christopher-bollas-9780300223651","title":"When the Sun Bursts","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen the Sun Bursts\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMany 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 Bollas asserts that schizophrenics can be helped by much more humane treatments. He believes that they have a chance to survive and even reverse the process if they have someone to talk to regularly and for a sustained period, soon after their first breakdown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this sensitive and evocative narrative, Bollas draws on his personal experiences working with schizophrenics since the 1960s. He offers his interpretation of how schizophrenia develops, typically in the teenage years, as an adaptation in the challenging transition to adulthood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith tenderness, Bollas depicts schizophrenia as an understandable way of responding to our precariousness in a highly unpredictable world. He celebrates the courage of the children he has worked with and reminds us that the wisdom inherent in human beings—to turn to conversation with others when in distress—is the fundamental foundation of any cure for human conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471938306284,"sku":"9780300223651","price":30.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/c014fa3c54c9b65bf997ddd35b0e7b92.jpg?v=1775692638"},{"product_id":"the-infinite-question-by-christopher-bollas-9780415473910","title":"The Infinite Question","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his latest book \u003cem\u003eThe Infinite Question\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Infinite Question\u003c\/em\u003e illustrates how Freud's free associative method provides both patient and analyst with answers and, in turn, with an ongoing interplay of further questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt the book's core are transcripts of real analytical sessions, accompanied by parallel commentaries which highlight key aspects of the free associative method in practice. These transcripts are contextualised by further discussion of the cases themselves, as well as a wider theoretical framework which places its emphasis on Freud's theory of the logic of sequence. By learning to listen to this free associative logic, Bollas argues, we can discover a richer and more complex unconscious voice than if we rely solely on Freud's theory of repressed ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBollas demonstrates, in an eloquent and persuasive manner, how the Freudian position of evenly suspended attentiveness enables the analyst's unconscious to catch the drift of the patient's own unconscious. He also shows that to stimulate further questioning is often of more benefit to the analytical process than to jump to an interpretation. 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