Catch them before they fall the psychoanalysis of breakdown
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 under...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge
2013.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798180706719 |
| Summary: | 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 |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (153 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780203069547 9781283894661 9781135087319 |
