Table of Contents

Part I: The Mind and Psychic Pain. Galatariotou, The Defences. Joseph, The Paranoid-Schizoid Position. Roth, The Depressive Position. Barrows, 'Can this be Pity?' - Envy, Guilt and Projective Identification. Part II: Symbolisation. Johns, The Facilitating Environment. Di Ceglie, Symbol Formation and the Construction of the Inner World. Budd, Recent Developments in the Theory of Dreams. Part III: Sexuality and the Formation of Identity. Laufer, Gender Identity and Reality. Birksted-Breen, The Feminine. Feldman, The Oedipus Complex I. Kohon, The Oedipus Complex II. Part IV: Patient and Analyst Interaction. Tonnesmann, Transference and Countertransference: An Historical Approach. Roth, Projective Identification. Riley, Two Approaches to Interpretation and the Relationship Between Them. Part V:Extreme Psychic States. Campbell, Perversion: Sadism and Survival. Garland, Trauma and the Possibility of Recovery.

About the Author

Susan Budd and Richard Rusbridger are both full members of the British Psychoanalytic Society.