of expecting too much from the role of the transformational object, especially as found within the transference. In popular culture Aside from his clinical writings, Bollas is also a cultural critic and his writings have earned the interests of people outside the world of psychoanalysis. He has also written three comic novels: Dark at the End of the Tunnel, I Have Heard the Mermaids Singing and Mayhem - and five plays. An American television sitcom, Cracking Up, derived its title from Bollas' book of that title and included a main character, "Dr Bollas", played by Henry Gibson. Bollas is also among the psychoanalysts mentioned in the first series of HBO's In Treatment. Bibliography Nonfiction The Shadow of the Object (1987, Free Association Books: 1987 Columbia University Press) Forces of Destiny (1989, Free Association Books) Being a Character (1992, Routledge) Cracking Up (1995, Routledge) The New Informants (with David Sundelson, 1996, Jason Aronson) The Mystery of Things (1999, Routledge) Hysteria (1999, Routledge) Free Association (2002, Ikon Books) The Freudian Moment (2007, Karnac Books) The Evocative Object World (2009, Routledge) The Infinite Question (2009, Routledge) The Christopher Bollas Reader (2011, Routledge) China on the Mind (2013, Routledge) Catch Them Before They Fall: Psychoanalysis of Breakdown (2013, Routledge) When the Sun Bursts: The Enigma of Schizophrenia (2015, Yale University Press) Meaning and Melancholia (2018, Routledge) Three Characters: Narcissist, Borderline, Manic Depressive (2021, Phoenix Publishing House) ISBN 978-1912691814 Fiction and plays Dark at the End of the Tunnel (2004 Free Association Books) I Have Heard the Mermaids Singing (2005 Free Association Books) Theraplay and Other Plays (2005 Free Association Books) Mayhem (2005, Free Associations Books) Works about Bollas The Vitality of Objects ed. Joseph Scalia (2002, Continuum) The Independent Mind in British Psychoanalysis Eric Rayner, (1991, Aronson) The Metapsychology of Christopher Bollas: an Introduction, Sarah Nettleton (2016, Routledge) References External links Christopher Bollas Website 1943 births American psychoanalysts Analysands of Masud Khan Autism researchers British psychoanalysts Living people People from Laguna Beach, California Smith College School for Social Work alumni UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty University at Buffalo alumni Austen Riggs Center physicians