Catch Them Before They Fall: The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown

by Christopher Bollas

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415637201
• ISBN13: 9780415637206
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.7"