Christopher Bollas ci presenta una serie di conferenze su Donald Winnicott da lui tenute, negli anni Ottanta del Novecento, all’Istituto di Neuropsichiatria infantile dell’Università di Roma. Bollas indaga le posizioni assunte da Winnicott e le traduce in formulazioni cliniche come l’“oggetto trasformativo” e il “conosciuto non pensato”, analizzando ogni fase dello sviluppo del bambino, dalla condizione intrinseca di solitudine del feto fino al concepimento della morale, ai progressi nel g...

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 they have someone to talk to them regularly and for a sustained period, soon after their first...

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 offers a multitude of practical improvements that will alter our understanding of vision and crea...

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 with clinical preoccupations, which highlight the richness as well as the bewildering complexity ...

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 with clinical preoccupations, which highlight the richness as well as the bewildering complexity ...

Em "Sentido e melancolia: a vida na era da perplexidade", Christopher Bollas aplica seu pensamento psicanalítico criativo e inovador a vários temas sociais, culturais e políticos contemporâneos, explorando tendências no Ocidente ao longo dos últimos duzentos anos. O autor rastreia mudanças nas forças psicológicas e nas "formas da mente" que resultaram em uma crucial "mudança do clima intelectual", e a partir desse exercício afirma que as décadas recentes testemunharam uma rápida e signific...

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 "impressed" by the object world. Most of this experience will never be consciousl...

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 with the other - into the hysteric form.Through a rereading of Freud, B...

Edizione italiana a cura di Franco Del Corno Un tour de force di Christopher Bollas su tre differenti tipi di carattere: il narcisista, il borderline, il maniaco-depressivo. È importante evidenziare che l’attenzione rivolta alla specificità di questi tipi evita il pericolo di suggerire che tutti i narcisisti, i borderline e i maniaco-depressivi siano uguali. Ciascuno di loro è un individuo con qualità peculiari che lo differenziano dagli altri. Ciò che li accomuna è una particolare relazio...

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 mind’, that have resulted in a crucial ‘intellectual climate change’. He conte...

It is important to point out that these essays are about character types; it is not to suggest that all borderlines, narcissists or manic depressives are the same. Everyone is an individual and are who they are for many different reasons. What they have in common is a typical relation between their subjectivity and the world they inhabit. In other words, Christopher Bollas has identified the axioms that these individuals share. Following a discussion of the features of each type, the axiom...

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 interpersonal engagements. Heimann's questions also apply when we talk to ourselves, and our inner dialog...