This bold and insightful book is the first to present the full work of highly influential British analyst, Herbert Rosenfeld.

Robert Hinshelwood is an English psychiatrist and academic. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Essex, UK. In 1984, he founded the British Journal of Psychotherapy and edited it for ten years, and founded the journal Psychoanalysis and History in 1999. He is the author of A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought (1989).

Introduction: An outline for the reader Part 1: Research into difficult problems 1. Mildred and features of psychotic states 2. Projective identification and depersonalisation 3. Confusional states 4. Super-ego 5. Negative narcissism 6. Borderline personalities 7. Other categories Part 2: Clinical approach 8. Classically interpretive 9. Debates: Greenson and Gitelson 10. Countertransference entanglements After-thoughts: reflections on a life's work