Hope : a shield in the economy of borderline states / Anna Potamianou ; translated by Philip Slotkin
1997, 1st edition. London ; New York : Routledge. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Item #423398
ISBN: 0415121779
Physical description: vii, 120 pages ; 24 cm. Series: The New library of psychoanalysis. Contents: Introduction -- Part I. Hope as a Binding Cathexis -- As Exemplified in the Pandora Myth -- As Exemplified in a Patient's Progress -- Part II. Clinical and Metapsychological Background -- On Cathexes -- Delimiting Cathexes and Cathexes of Limits -- Cathexes and Decathexes in Borderline States -- Part III. Hope -- Dynamic and Economic Aspects -- One Day -- It'll All Be Better Tomorrow -- Part IV. Hopeful Waiting in Borderline States -- Raising of Shields -- A Token of Resistance -- Safeguarding Masochism -- A Cathexis that Becomes an Object -- Part V. Even God Needs a Mother -- De-formation, De-shaping, Dis-sociation -- Tracing A Path. Subject: Borderline personality disorder. Hope. Object relations. Psychoanalysis. Defense mechanisms. Psychology. Attachment behavior. État-limite. Psychiatrie. Espérance. Relation d'objet. Psychanalyse. Mécanismes de défense. Attachement.
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