Hysteria Book

I objected to Bollas's apparent suggestion that clients' recollections of childhood sexual abuse are largely fantasies and his frequent references to media hype around paedophiles. In the 100 pages of the book that I read, this was nowhere balanced by recognition that child sexual abuse is a reality and much more common than the psychoanalytic community was willing to acknowledge for a very long time. Otherwise I found it a useful analysis of the mechanisms of hysteria, albeit in often painfully obscure language.