Offers a depiction of one analyst's efforts to receive and respond to the vivid impressions of raw and sometimes unmentalised experiences, as highlighted in the therapeutic relationship. This book integrates the work of Klein, Winnicott, Bion and Tustin.

Foreword , Introduction , Introduction to the Karnac Edition 2008 , Unintegration, Adhesive Identification, and the Psychic Skin: * Variations on Some Themes by Esther Bick , On the Survival Function of Autistic Maneuvers in Adult Patients 1 , Notes on an Embryonic State of Mind , On the Survival Function of Pathological Organizations 1 , To Err Is Human: One Patient's Emergence from within a Pathological Organization , The Role of Unmentalized Experience in the Etiology and Treatment of Psychosomatic Asthma 1 , Examining a Fragment of a Fragment: Freud's "Dora" Case Revisited , On Adhesive Pseudo-Object Relations: A Theory 1 , On Adhesive Pseudo-Object Relations: An Illustration 1 , Toward an Understanding of Unmentalized Experience 1 , Deficiency and Envy: Some Factors Impacting the Analytic Mind from Listening to Interpretation 1 , Credits