First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Some Thoughts on How to Read this Book. Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia" and The Origins of Object-relations Theory. Reading Susan Isaacs: Toward a Radically Revised Theory of Thinking. Why Read Fairbairn? Winnicott's "Primitive Emotional Development". Reading Bion. Elements of Analytic Style: Bion's Clinical Seminars. Reading Loewald: Oedipus Reconceived. Harold Searles's "Oedipal Love in the Countertransference" and "Unconscious Identification".

Thomas H. Ogden is a Supervising and Personal Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. He has published eight books, including Rediscovering Psychoanalysis: Thinking and Dreaming, Learning and Forgetting and This Art of Psychoanalysis: Dreaming Undreamt Dreams and Interrupted Cries. His work has been translated into 18 languages.