Hysteria

by Christopher Bollas

Book Overview

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.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415220335
• ISBN13: 9780415220330
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"