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Tables of Contents for The Drama of the Gifted Child
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
vii
1 THE DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD AND HOW WE BECAME PSYCHOTHERAPISTS
1
26
The Poor Rich Child
4
4
The Lost World of Feelings
8
6
In Search of the True Self
14
5
The Therapist's History
19
5
The Golden Brain
24
3
2 DEPRESSION AND GRANDIOSITY: TWO RELATED FORMS OF DENIAL
27
42
The vicissitudes of the Child's Needs
27
6
Healthy Development
28
2
The Disturbance
30
3
The Illusion of Love
33
19
Grandiosity
34
3
Depression as the Reverse of Grandiosity
37
3
Depression as Denial of the Self
40
12
Depressive Phases During Therapy
52
4
Signal Function
53
1
Suppression of Essential Needs
53
1
The Accumulation of Strong, Hidden Feelings
54
1
Confronting the Parents
55
1
The Inner Prison
56
13
A Social Aspect of Depression
62
4
The Legend of Narcissus
66
3
3 THE VICIOS CIRCLE OF CONTEMPT
69
48
Humiliation for the Child, Disrespect for the Weak, and Where It Goes from There
69
13
Working with Contempt in Therapy
82
13
Damaged Self-Articulation in the Compulsion of Repeat
83
2
Perpetuation of Contempt in Perversion and Obsessive Behavior
85
10
"Depravity" as "Evil" in Hermann Hesse's Childhood World
95
8
The Mother as Society's Agent During the First Years of Life
103
3
The Loneliness of the Contemptous
106
5
Achieving Freedom from Contempt and Respecting Life
111
6
AFTERWORD
117
10
WORKS CITED
127
2
APPENDIX
129
3
INDEX
132