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 identificate

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

Name Index

Subject Index