Introduction 1 Origins of the therapeutic alliance 2 The place of the psychoanalyst 3 The necessary destructions of psychoanalysis 4 Figures and their functions 5 One, two…seven 6 The goals of psychoanalysis? 7 Mind against self 8 Mental interference 9 Dead mother, dead child 10 Borderline desire 11 Passing on paranoia 12 Occasional madness of the psychoanalyst 13 Embodiment 14 Wording and telling sexuality 15 Creativity and psychoanalysis 16 The mystery of things
Biography
Christopher Bollas is a psychoanalyst in private practice in London. He is author of Shadow of the Object (1987), Forces of Destiny (1988), Being a Character: Psychoanalysis and Self Experience (1992), Cracking Up: The Work of Unconscious Experience (1995) and The New Informants: Betrayal of Confidentiality in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy with David Sundelson (1995).
