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
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
