Table of Contents

Part 1 Developmental considerations - an infant's pleasures: joy and satisfaction in infancy, Daniel N.Stern, MD; play, pleasure, reality, Eugene Mahon, MD; a developmental approach to pleasure and sexuality, Stanley I. Greenspan, MD; early symbiotic processes - hard evidence from a soft place, Myrin A. Hofer, MD. Part 2 The theoretical frontier - mind-brain questions of the pleasurable: project for the study of the emotion , Donald L. Nathanson, MD; on narcissism - an(other) introduction, Andrew Schwartz, MD; appetitive pleasure states - a bio-psychoanalytical model of the pleasure threshold, mental representation, and defense, Norman Diodge, MD. Part 3 The clinical situation - the patient, the analyst, and the importance of pleasure: hatred as pleasure, Otto F. Kernberg, MD; on pleasurable effects, Charles Brenner, MD; anhedonia and its implications for psycho-therapy, Michael H. Stone, MD. Part 3 Aesthetic and philosophic inquires on the nature of pleasure: reflections on psychoanalysis and aesthetic pleasure, Ellen Handler Spitz; the sub-dominance of the pleasure principle, Edward S. Casey; the pleasures of repitition, Judith Butler PhD.