Hysteria

Bollas offers an original and illuminating theory of hysteria that weaves its well-known features - repressed sexual ideas; indifference to conversions; over-identification with the other - into the hysteric form.

Author: Christopher Bollas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11/18/1999
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.23h x 6.17w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9780415220330

About the Author

Christopher Bollas is a psychoanalyst in private practice in London. He is the author of The Shadow of the Object (1987), Being a Character (1992), Cracking Up (1995), The New Informants (with David Sundelson) (1995), and The Mystery of Things (1999).