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Christopher Bollas, Ph.D.
Christopher Bollas is one of the most widely read authors in the field of psychoanalysis. He studied intellectual history with Carl Schorske at UC Berkeley, receiving his bachelor degree in history. He earned his doctorate in English Literature and studied with Norman Holland, Leslie Fiedler, Murray Schwartz, Michel Foucault and Rene Girard. He was Director of Education at Austen Riggs Center and qualified in psychoanalysis at the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London. He worked with and has been influenced by Arnold Modell, Andre Green, Herbert Rosenfeld, Joseph Sandler and others.  Dr. Bollas is unique in being deeply informed historically, culturally and clinically.
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Thinking About The Future

Christopher Bollas, Ph.D.

Berkeley City Club 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States

Most people have an internal object that gathers their unconscious assumptions about the future. As an object, the future serves multiple functions during the course of a lifetime and is therefore subjected to shifting cultural axioms about the future. Currently, the expansionist promise of globalization seems counter pointed by the death drive that annihilates the […]