Hope: A Shield in the Economy of Borderline States
By Anna Potamianou
Series: The New Library of Psychoanalysis
- List Price: $99.00
- ISBN: 978-0-415-12176-7
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 12/05/1996
- Pages: 128
- Trim Size: 234X156
- Binding(s): Hardback | Paperback
About the Book
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.
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