This book contains papers varying from the subject of psychoanalytic theory and therapy to the psychoses and applied psycho-analysis. It emphasizes the infant's constant struggle with his internal-object-relations, internal war of mental objects, and his drive towards 'reparation'.

PREFACE BY ERNEST JOINES -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE -- PAPERS IN CLINICAL PSYCHO-ANALYSIS -- 1. MELANIEKLEN -- The Psydio-41nalytlc Play Technique: Its history and sigficawe -- 2. PAULA HEIMANN -- A Contribution w the re-eva1uation of the (Edipus Complex-early stages -- 3. W. CLIFFORD M. SCOTT -- A Psycho-Analytic concept of the orgin Depression -- 4. 11. GWEN EVANS -- Early Anxiety Situation in the aialynsefa boy rn the Lerscy Period -- 5. MARION MILNER -- The role of Illusion In Symbol Formation -- 6. LOIS MUNRO -- Steps in Ego-Integration observed In a Play-Analysis -- 7. EMIUO RODEUGUE -- The analysis of a three-year-old mute schizophrenic -- 8. HERBERT ROSENFELD -- Notes on the Psyche-Analysis of the Super-Ego Conflict in an acute schizophrenic patient -- 9. W.R.BION -- Language and the schizophrenic -- 10. PAULA HETMANN -- A combination of Defence Mechanisms in Paranoid States -- 11. BERYL SANDFORD -- An obsessional man's need to be "kept" -- H12. ANS A. THORNER -- Three Defeswcs against Inner Persecution -- PART TWO -- PAPERS IN APPLIED PSYCHO-ANALYSIS MELANIE KLEIN -- On identification -- 14. JOAN R.IVIERE -- The Unconscious Phantasy of an Inner World reflected in -- examples front literature -- 15. JOAN RIVIERE -- The Inner World in Ibsen's MASTER-BUILDER -- 16. HANNA SEGAL -- A Psycho-Analytical approach to Aesthetics -- 17. ADRIAN STOKES -- Form in Art -- 18. R. B. MONEY-KYRLE -- Psycho-Analysis and Ethics -- 19. W. K. BION -- Group Dynamics: a re-view -- 20. ELLIOTT JAQUES -- Social Systems as a defence against Persecutory and Deprcssiie -- Anxiety -- 21. R. E. MONEY-KYRLE -- An inconclusive contribution to the theory of the Death Instinct.