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The Mystery of Things
Contributor(s): Bollas, Christopher (Author)
ISBN: 0415212324     ISBN-13: 9780415212328
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $37.95  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 1999
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Annotation: Christopher Bollas takes the reader right to the heart of psychotherapy, examining the mysterious aspects of the self that are revealed by the analysis. Free association, the primary method of psychoanalytic enquiry, runs contrary to everything that we are taught is a scientific way to acquire data. Yet it is through using this subversive and apparently illogical method that pathological patterns in thinking can be revealed. In his inimitable and highly readable way, Bollas focuses on the nature and effects of the free associative process and shows how aspects such as mental illness and creative or artistic acts can disclose much about the self.
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BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis
- Psychology | Psychotherapy - General
- Psychology | Mental Health
Dewey: 150.195
LCCN: 98053607
Lexile Measure: 1360
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.18" W x 9.2" (0.70 lbs) 224 pages
 
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In The Mystery of Things, Christopher Bollas takes the reader right to the heart of psychotherapy, examining the mysterious aspects of the self that are revealed by analysis.
The method of enquiry at the heart of psychoanalysis, that is, free association, runs contrary to everything that we are taught is the logical, rational, scientific way to acquire data. Yet it is only through using such an apparently illogical and subversive method that the pathological structures in thinking can be penetrated and the self underneath revealed and worked with by the analyst.
Christopher Bollas focuses on the nature and effects of the free associative process. Using clinical studies, he highlights how aspects such as mental illness, and creative or artistic acts can reveal much about the self.