Foreword by Thomas Ogden Acknowledgements 1. The Self in Conversation I: Self and Development 2. I, Me, Myself 3. Conversational Play 4. Two Forms of Human Conversation 5. Memory II: The Trauma System 6. Uncoupled Consciousness 7. Disrupted Maturation: The Dissolution Hypothesis 8. A Theory of Value 9. Feeling Creates Reality 10. Malignant Internalisation 11. The Evocative Context 12. Priming and Projective Identification: On Being Constructed 13. Satellites of Trauma III. Integration 14. Transforming the Chronicle 15. Flights & Perchings Epilogue 16. The Death of Narcissus Footnotes References