Main description:

* Describes the author's psychoanalytic approach to working in the public health sector with people suffering from acute and chronic emotional pain. * Fills a gap in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, providing students and practicing professionals with a new approach to once-a-week therapy. * Provides compelling and moving case studies as well as personal examples of how to use the psychoanalytic approach in personal life.

Contents:

Introduction: Projective Identification, Counter-Transference and the Destructive Superego Part One: Depression 1. The Destructive Superego and Depression Part Two: Death 2. Dependency, Loneliness and Death 3. Fears of Death and Fears of Dying Part Three: Psychosis 4. Violence and Psychosis 5. Grief and Psychosis - The First Year of Therapy with J 6. Encounters with a Psychotic Supergo - The Second Year with J 7. Struggles to Contain Madness - The Third Year of Therapy with J 8. Mourning Omnipotence - The Fourth Year with J Part Four: Life 9. War 10. The Holocaust 11. Entitlement 12. Sexual Identity Appendices