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  • When the Sun Bursts

    The Enigma of Schizophrenia

    by Christopher Bollas ...
    Many schizophrenics experience their condition as one of radical incarceration, mind-altering medications, isolation, and dehumanization. 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, and that they have a chance to survive and even reverse the process if ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hysteria

    by Christopher Bollas ...
    Hysteria has disappeared from contemporary culture only insofar as it has been subjected to a repression through the popular diagnosis of 'borderline personality disorder'.In Hysteria the distinguished psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas offers an original and illuminating theory of hysteria that weaves its well-known features - repressed sexual ideas; indifference to conversion; over-identification ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • The Shadow of the Object

    Psychoanalysis of the Unthought Known

    by Christopher Bollas ...
    In The Shadow of the Object, Christopher Bollas integrates aspects of Freud’s theory of unconscious thinking with elements from the British Object Relations School. In doing so, he offers radical new visions of the scope of psychoanalysis and expands our understanding of the creativity of the unconscious mind and the aesthetics of human character.During our formative years, we are continually ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Pitching to the Dream Team

    The INSEAD Lectures on Psychoanalysis and Organizational Life

    by Christopher Bollas ...
    The book offers a radical, refreshing, innovative, provocative, and generative perspective on conflict solution whether in an organization or government. It also offers an entirely new set of terms and concepts to access, utilize, and share unconscious creativity. Almost all the top-down organizational assumptions in government and business stifle creativity rather than facilitate it. The book ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Essential Aloneness

    Rome Lectures on DW Winnicott

    by Christopher Bollas ...
    Essential Aloneness presents a series of lectures on DW Winnicott delivered by Christopher Bollas in the 1980s to students and staff of the Institute of Child Neuropsychiatry at the University of Rome. Those attending were familiar with Winnicott's works; indeed, many were expert. But a question remained. How do you use Winnicott's concepts in the clinical space? Bollas not only addresses that ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

  • Streams of Consciousness

    Notebooks 1974–1990

    by Christopher Bollas ...
    In Christopher Bollas' Streams of Consciousness, a wide spectrum of theory and practice are explored, sometimes appearing in simple fragments, sometimes via complex lines of thinking that are developed in detail over time. As Bollas revisits the received truths and dogmas of his profession – including his own prejudices – he demonstrates the value of open, intelligent uncertainty. Interspersed ... Read more

    $61.35 CAD

  • The Evocative Object World

    by Christopher Bollas ...
    In 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 associative technique, through an examination of how ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Streams of Consciousness

    Notebooks 1991–2024

    by Christopher Bollas ...
    In Christopher Bollas' Streams of Consciousness, a wide spectrum of theory and practice are explored, sometimes appearing in simple fragments, sometimes via complex lines of thinking that are developed in detail over time. As Bollas revisits the received truths and dogmas of his profession – including his own prejudices – he demonstrates the value of open, intelligent uncertainty. Interspersed ... Read more

    $61.35 CAD

  • Meaning and Melancholia

    Life in the Age of Bewilderment

    by Christopher Bollas ...
    Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment sees Christopher Bollas apply his creative and innovative psychoanalytic thinking to various contemporary social, cultural and political themes.This book offers an incisive exploration of powerful trends within, and between, nations in the West over the past two hundred years. The author traces shifts in psychological forces and ‘frames of ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • The Infinite Question

    by Christopher Bollas ...
    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 with answers and ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Conversations

    by Christopher Bollas ...
    Christopher Bollas presents us with a new literary form in his Conversations: twenty-three unique dialogues to captivate, amuse, and inspire. The psychoanalyst Paula Heimann asked: 'Who is speaking? To whom? About what? And why now?' We speak with the voice and position of many others – mothers, fathers, siblings, teachers – and ordinary conversation therefore stages the history of our ... Read more

    $33.27 CAD

  • China on the Mind

    by Christopher Bollas ...
    Several 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 eastern philosophers, Bollas demonstrates how the Eastern ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD