COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Variations on a theme of negation; CHAPTER TWO Other minds, other worlds; CHAPTER THREE Working without a safety net; CHAPTER FOUR What happens when the plot gets lost; CHAPTER FIVE Gothic tales and other stories; CHAPTER SIX I believe . . .; CHAPTER SEVEN The meaning of fantasy and anxiety; CHAPTER EIGHT Fantasy terminable and interminable; REFERENCES; INDEX.
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Offers a different approach to the problem of anxiety. This book suggests that our fantasies offer the key to understanding our anxieties and vice versa. It also contains clinical examples of fantasy/anxiety interactions. It puts dialectics 'centre stage' in terms of understanding the patient's discourse.