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Tre caratteri: Narcisista, borderline, maniaco-depressivo

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Edizione italiana a cura di Franco Del Corno

Un tour de force di Christopher Bollas su tre differenti tipi di il narcisista, il borderline, il maniaco-depressivo. È importante evidenziare che l’attenzione rivolta alla specificità di questi tipi evita il pericolo di suggerire che tutti i narcisisti, i borderline e i maniaco-depressivi siano uguali. Ciascuno di loro è un individuo con qualità peculiari che lo differenziano dagli altri. Ciò che li accomuna è una particolare relazione tra la loro soggettività e il mondo del quale fanno parte.
Christopher Bollas ha identificato gli assiomi condivisi da questi caratteri e sono tali assiomi a introdurci nella logica che ne guida il comportamento. È così possibile iniziare a identificarsi e a provare empatia. Il dolore mentale è all’origine di tutti i disturbi del carattere e ogni disturbo rappresenta un tentativo intelligente di risolvere un problema esistenziale. Il naturale processo di guarigione può avere inizio solo se il clinico riesce a cogliere questa intelligenza e ad aiutare l’analizzando a comprenderla.

114 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 18, 2022

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Christopher Bollas

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Christopher Bollas, Ph.D. is a Member of the International Psychoanalytical Association and has been practicing for over fifty years. Former Director of Education at the Austen Riggs Center he was Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Institute of Child Neuropsychiatry of the University of Rome. He is a prolific author and international lecturer.

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472 reviews43 followers
March 14, 2024
Chiaro e molto dettagliato, Bollas descrive perfettamente questi tre caratteri.
168 reviews6 followers
December 12, 2024
Bollas writes with a deftness and clarity often not found in analytic writers. With a deep awareness of analytic thought before him he adds his own thought with a sureness and solidness that will help any clinician working with troubled people. There is a deep respect in his writing for those suffering. And for clinicians his technical suggestions and ways of understanding patients are sure to help.
39 reviews
July 10, 2025
libro di psicodinamica nel quale si delineano gli aspetti salienti dei vissuti interiori e dei caratteri di tre diverse personalità: borderline, narcisista e maniaco-depressivo. Progetto ambizioso e di non facile accessibilità per chi non abbia una buona conoscenza dell'approccio psicodinamico. Personalmente non ho apprezzato il libro appieno perchè molto passaggi mi sono risultati ostici e non comprensibili, dal momento che non faccio parte della schiera dei conoscitori della materia.
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December 30, 2025
Libro interessante e analizza bene i tre caratteri in modo piuttosto comprensibile anche se scientifico, a tratti un po' noioso
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170 reviews1 follower
December 12, 2023
Solid and understandable intro to the etiology and treatment of the three eponymous character disorders. Bollas argues for a relational-adjacent analytic technique that seeks to create an empathetic holding environment whereby the patient's character axioms and fundamental idioms can relay in circuit with those of the analyst's such that the schizoid deficits from the patient's pre-oedipal life can be progressively filled by a full and humanized other which enacts a characterological transformation. Bollas is unfailingly optimistic in his belief that even those with supposedly incurable character disorders can undergo substantial personality change, which is a heartening opinion amid much of psychoanalytic literature. Whether a child replaces the unreliable other with the self that leaves an empty internal world, introjects the pain of the environment-mother in order to sustain the relation to the maternal object, or defensively turns to internal mental events when met with an underwhelming and unresponsive external object world, in each case the child establishes certain axioms around a 'missing core' of their personality; in each case, though, Bollas always argues against the notion that such individuals are unanalyzable. These axioms can always present in the transference, even if not in the typical neurotic fashion, which, when mirrored and presented back to the patient, allow for evacuated beta elements to be symbolized as alpha elements that can restructure the core of the self left underdeveloped in the maternal order and onwards. Overall an insightful book with a hopeful and positive outlook on the possibility of analytic treatment for personality disorders.
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