Christopher Bollas

Christopher Bollas was a professor of English literature and a psychoanalyst. He received his psychoanalytic training in London, among others under John Bowlby, Paula Heimann, Herbert Rosenfeld, and Joseph Sandler. He was a member of the British Psychoanalytic Society, the Los Angeles Institute and Society of Psychoanalytic Studies, and the European Study Group of Unconscious Thought. Bollas published specialist books and articles in international journals. His best-known works include *The Shadow of the Object*.