AcknowledgementsPrologue 1) Introduction: What is psychoanalysis? 2) Fundamental Freud; 3) How does psychoanalysis work? 4) The downside of change Part I Analytic understanding of early life 5) The baby 6) The mother and the environment Part II Freedom of thought 7) The mad 8) The bad 9) The sad 10) The good and the sane Part III Conflict through the life stages 11) The young child and Oedipus 12) The child: Resolving or evading Oedipus 13) Early adolescence and the changing body 14) Late adolescence Part IV Adulthood 15) Love 16) Parenting 17) Work and play 18) Mid-life 19) Old age 20) Conclusion AppendicesReferencesIndex
Denise Cullington is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Oxford, UK. She trained at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, the Tavistock Clinic, London and as a clinical psychologist. Prior to that she lived and painted in the US and in Puerto Rico. Her book Breaking Up Blues (2008, Routledge) brought analytic thinking to the task of managing break-up and divorce.