When The Sun Bursts - Christopher Bollas

A Leading Psychoanalyst Shares His Experiences Working With Schizophrenic Patients To Show How Effective Talk Therapy Can Be As A Treatment Many Schizophrenics Experience Their Condition As One Of Radical Incarceration, Mind-altering Medications, Isolation, And Dehumanization. At A Time When The Treatment Of Choice Is Anti-psychotic Medication, World-renowned Psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas Asserts That Schizophrenics Can Be Helped By Much More Humane Treatments, And That They Have A Chance To Survive And Even Reverse The Process If They Have Someone To Talk To Them Regularly And For A Sustained Period, Soon After Their First Breakdown. In This Sensitive And Evocative Narrative, He Draws On His Personal Experiences Working With Schizophrenics Since The 1960s.