{"product_id":"catch-them-before-they-fall-christopher-bollas-9780415637190","title":"Catch Them Before They Fall: The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe 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 potential.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBollas believes that hospitalization, intensive medication and CBT\/DBT all negate this opportunity, and he proposes that many of these patients should instead be offered extended, intensive psychoanalysis. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be of interest to clinicians who find that, with patients on the verge of breakdown, conventional psychoanalytical work is insufficient to meet the emerging crisis. However, Bollas's challenging proposal will provoke many questions and in the final section of the book some of these are raised by Sacha Bollas and presented in a question-and-answer form. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Bollas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415637198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415637190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/14\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.50d","brand":"Christopher Bollas","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086636298495,"sku":"9780415637190","price":160.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ad3299c9-2775-46c5-9528-5d6ad2025857.jpg?v=1769095753","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/catch-them-before-they-fall-christopher-bollas-9780415637190","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}