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Author_Anna Potamianou
borderline
Borderline Organization
Borderline Pathology
Borderline Patients
Borderline Personality Organization
Borderline States
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clinical psychoanalysis
death
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Drive Defusion
Drive Thrusts
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Fennel Stalk
hope dynamics in personality disorders
Hopeful Waiting
Impulse Control
Infantile Megalomania
John Chrysostom
Leo III
Loving Master
metapsychological analysis
Moral Masochism
negative
Negative Therapeutic Reaction
object relations model
Overburdened
Pandora's Jar
patients
Paul The Apostle
psychic
Psychic Apparatus
psychic defences
Psychic Mobilization
psychodynamic theory
reaction
Saint John Chrysostom
state
Subject's Omnipotent Control
therapeutic
Willow Tree
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415121774
- Weight: 240g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 05 Dec 1996
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the well known myth of Pandora, hope was the last and most need gift at the bottom of a box of myriad misfortunes let loose on an unsuspecting world. For most human beings hope is a positive benefit. Anna Potamianou shows how in the 'borderline' patient hope can become a perverted and omnipotent means of denying reality. Indeed, in such individuals any state of mind or feeling can take on the status of an object, which is then used as a barrier against their fear of change.
The psychic economy and dynamics of borderline states are not yet well understood and this book makes an important contribution to the clinical debate.
Anna Potamianou is a Training Analyst of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society and member of the Greek Study Group. She teaches at Pantios University, Greece, and is in private practice.
