Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: history and controversy; Models of the mind; Origins of the internal world; Mechanisms of defence; Transference and Countertransference; Dreams, symbols, imagination; The assessment interview; The therapeutic relationship; Clinical dilemmas; Psychoanalytic contributions to psychiatry; Research in psychoanalysis; References; Index.
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This lively, widely referenced account presents the core features of contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice in an easily assimilated, but thought-provoking manner. Illustrated throughout with clinical examples.