Christopher bollas the shadow of the object

Concordant with his career in literary and cultural studies, Bollas has worked as a psychotherapist since 1967, launching his clinical career with autistic and schizophrenic children. CareerД«ollas was a Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the middle 1980s. Pontalis, Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, Marion Milner, Nina Coltart, and Paula Heimann. Those teachers and figures whom he knew and who helped diversify his thinking were Arnold Modell, John Bowlby, AndrГ© Green, Herbert Rosenfeld, Joseph J. He qualified in psychoanalysis at the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London in 1977 and in Adult Psychotherapy from the Tavistock Clinic in 1978. While at Smith College, to earn an MSW, he visited the Austen Riggs Center (where he was to become Director of Education a decade later) and met Erik Erikson who became a mentor early on in his career and was to be of singular influence for the next twenty years.

At the University of Buffalo he earned a PhD in English Literature and studied with Norman Holland, Leslie Fiedler, Murray Schwartz, Michel Foucault, RenГ© Girard and with the Heideggerian psychoanalyst Heinz Lichtenstein. From 1967вЂ“69 he trained in child counselling at the East Bay Activity Center in Oakland, California and from 1969вЂ“73 he was the first graduate of the Program in Adult Psychotherapy at the University of Buffalo.

As an undergraduate Bollas studied intellectual history with Carl Schorske, and psychoanalytical anthropology with Alan Dundes. He grew up in Laguna Beach, California, and later graduated in history from UC Berkeley in 1967. Bollas was born in the United States in Washington, DC.

Christopher bollas the shadow of the object