Main description:

Ogden is one of the most influential thinkers working in contemporary psychoanalysis * His work has global appeal * Book covers key theory and copious clinical material

Contents:

Introduction: Notes on being and becoming; 1. Ontological psychoanalysis or "What do you want to be when you grow up?"; 2. The feeling of real: On Winnicott's "Communicating and not communicating leading to a study of certain oppposites"; 3. How I talk with my patients; 4. Destruction reconceived: On Winnicott's "The use of an object and relating through identifications"; 5. Dreaming the analytic session: A clinical essay; 6. Toward a revised form of analytic thinking and practice: The evolution of analytic theory of mind; 7. On language and truth in psychoanalysis; 8. Experiencing the poetry of Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson; 9. Analytic writing as a form of fiction