ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FOREWORD
Meg Harris Williams
INTRODUCTION
1 Field or phase – a debate on psychoanalytical modes of thought
2 What is an emotional experience?
3 A Klein-Bion model for evaluating psychosomatic states
4 The protomental apparatus and soma-psychotic phenomena
5 The conceptual distinction between projective identification (Klein) and container-contained (Bion)
6 Clinical use of the concept of vertices: multiplication of vertices as a method reality of testing; shifting of vertices as a mode of defence
7 The limits of language
8 Facts and fictions 89
9 An enquiry into lies, their genesis and relation to hallucination
10 Clinical application of Bion’s concept ‘transformations in hallucinosis’
11 Clinical application of Bion’s concept ‘reversal of alpha-function’
12 Psychotic illness in early childhood: ten years on from Explorations in Autism
13 A one-year-old goes to day nursery – a parable of confusing times
14 Family patterns and cultural educability
15 Concerning the perception of one’s own attributes and its relation to language development
16 On turbulence
17 A Swiftean diatribe
18 Denouement
REFERENCES
INDEX