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Hope A Shield in the Economy of Borderline States 1st Edition

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Full Title

Hope A Shield in the Economy of Borderline States 1st Edition

Author(s)

Anna Potamianou

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781134807413, 9780415121774, 9780415121767, 9786610023738, 9781280023736, 9781134807376, 9781134807420, 9780203360170

Publisher

Routledge

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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.