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Hope : A Shield in the Economy of Borderline States, Paperback / softback Book

Hope : A Shield in the Economy of Borderline States Paperback / softback

Part of the The New Library of Psychoanalysis series

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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.

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