"This Art of Psychoanalysis" offers a unique perspective on psychoanalysis that features a new way of conceptualizing the role of dreaming in human psychology.
Thomas Ogden's thinking has been at the cutting edge of psychoanalysis for more than 25 years. In this volume, he builds on the work of Freud, Klein, Winnicott and Bion, and explores the idea that human psychopathology is a manifestation of a breakdown of the individual's capacity to dream his experience. The investigation into the role of the analyst in participating psychologically in the patient's dreaming is illustrated throughout with elegant and absorbing accounts of clinical work, providing a fascinating insight into the analyst's experience. Subjects covered include:
- A New Reading of the Origins of Object Relations Theory
- On Holding and Containing, Being and Dreaming
- On Psychoanalytic Writing
This engaging book succeeds in conveying not just a set of techniques but a way of being with patients that is humane and compassionate. It will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and other mental health professionals.

Preface. This Art of Psychoanalysis: Dreaming Undreamt Dreams and Interrupted Cries. What I Would Not Part With. A New Reading of the Origins of Object Relations Theory. On Not being Able to Dream. What's True and Whose Idea Was It? Reading Bion. On Holding and Containing, Being and Dreaming. On Psychoanalytic Writing. Bibliography.

Thomas H. Ogden is the winner of the 2004 International Journal of Psychoanalysis Award for Outstanding Paper. He is the Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Psychoses and a full member of the International Psychoanalytical Association.