04130cam a2200349 4500 279652796 TxAuBib 20161208120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780300216233 0300216238 B016WX7RZO Amazon 7c29d72c-f347-48e7-a398-10abd567b892 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2475323 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Bollas, Christopher. When the Sun Bursts [Bridges eBook] : The Enigma of Schizophrenia. Yale University Press, 2015. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 581kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 581kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. schizophrenia. HTML:September 28, 2015 Psychoanalyst Bollas (Catch Them Before They Fall) explores schizophrenia in a fascinating mix of memoir, case studies, and research. He presumes basic familiarity with psychological and psychoanalytic theory; nevertheless, the text will be accessible to the curious lay reader. Part One details the author’s journey into the field of psychoanalysis, starting when he worked as a counselor with severely autistic and psychotic children in Berkeley, Calif., in the 1960s and ’70s, and moving through his professional training and practice. The bulk of the book is dedicated to describing what it is like (in Bollas’s view) to be schizophrenic and to treat a schizophrenic person. Individual chapters are devoted to different manifestations of schizophrenia, such as hearing voices and experiencing somatoform disorders (mental illnesses with physical symptoms). These are results, according to Bollas, of the patient’s attempts to cope with altered perception by shutting out the world. He also discusses how to provide treatment through talk therapy. While Bollas acknowledges that his own experiences cannot furnish definitive proof, his belief is that intensive, one-on-one therapy can cure schizophrenia. This book is a remarkable look at a confounding illness and the practices of one seasoned, passionate analyst.. Publisher's Weekly. HTML:Many schizophrenics experience their condition as one of radical incarceration, mind-altering medications, isolation, and dehumanization.  At a time when the treatment of choice is anti-psychotic medication, world-renowned psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas asserts that schizophrenics can be helped by much more humane treatments, and that they have a chance to survive and even reverse the process if they have someone to talk to them regularly and for a sustained period, soon after their first breakdown.    In this sensitive and evocative narrative, he draws on his personal experiences working with schizophrenics since the 1960's. He offers his interpretation of how schizophrenia develops, typically in the teens, as an adaptation in the difficult transition to adulthood.  With tenderness, Bollas depicts schizophrenia as an understandable way of responding to our precariousness in a highly unpredictable world.  He celebrates the courage of the children he has worked with and reminds us that the wisdom inherent in human beings—to turn to conversation with others when in distress—is the fundamental foundation of any cure for human conflict.. Psychology. Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2016-12-07 23:00:02. http://bridges.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=7c29d72c-f347-48e7-a398-10abd567b892 https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7c29d72c-f347-48e7-a398-10abd567b892&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7c29d72c-f347-48e7-a398-10abd567b892&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7c29d72c-f347-48e7-a398-10abd567b892&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)