Originally intended as a series of lectures for the general public, outlines the basic ideas of Melanie Klein and Wilfred Bion clearly and directly, and shows these ideas at work in contemporary analysis.

Daniel, Child Analysis and the Concept of Unconscious Phantasy. Brenman Pick, The Emergence of Early Object Relations in the Psychoanalytic Setting. Britton, The Oedipus Situation and the Depressive Position. Steiner, The Equilibrium Between the Paranoid-Schizoid and the Depressive Positions. Bott Spillius, Clinical Experiences of Projective Identification. Feldman, Splitting and Projective Identification. O'Shaughnessy, Psychosis: Not Thinking in a Bizarre World. Britton, Keeping Things in Mind. Riesenberg Malcolm, As If: The Phenomenon of Not-Learning.