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Dustjacket slightly rubbed, otherwise fine. - Contents: Acknowledgements -- General introduction Elizabeth Spillius -- Part One: The analysis of psychotic patients -- Introduction -- Notes on the psychoanalysis of the superego conflict of an acute schizophrenic patient Herbert Rosenfeld -- Depression in the schizophrenic Hanna Segal -- Differentiation of the psychotic from the non-psychotic personalities Wilfred Bion -- Part Two: Projective identification -- Introduction -- Attacks on linking Wilfred Bion -- The relation of anal masturbation to projective identification Donald Meltzer -- Contribution to the psychopathology of psychotic states: the importance of projective identification in the ego structure and the object relations of the psychotic patient Herbert Rosenfeld -- Projective identification - some clinical aspects Betty Joseph -- Part Three: On thinking -- Introduction -- Notes on symbol formation Hanna Segal -- A theory of thinking Wilfred Bion -- The experience of the skin in early object-relations Esther Bick -- Part Four: Pathological organizations -- Introduction -- Schizoid phenomena in the borderline J. Henri Rey -- Terror, persecution, dread - a dissection of paranoid anxieties Donald Meltzer -- A clinical approach to the psychoanalytic theory of the life and death instincts: an investigation into the aggressive aspects of narcissism Herbert Rosenfeld -- Cruelty and narrowmindedness Eric Brenman -- Narcissistic organization, projective identification, and the formation of the identif�te Leslie Sohn -- A clinical study of a defensive organization Edna O'Shaughnessy -- Addiction to near-death Betty Joseph -- The interplay between pathological organizations and the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions John Steiner -- References to general introduction and other introductory material -- Subject Index -- Name Index. ISBN 9780415006750