Despite the prominence of television in our everyday lives, psychoanalytic approaches to its significance and function are notoriously few and far between.

This volume takes up perspectives from object relations theory and other psychoanalytic approaches to ask questions about the role of television as an object of the internal worlds of its viewers, and also addresses itself to a range of specific television programs, ranging from -Play School-, through the plays of Jack Rosenthal to recent TV blockbuster series such as -In Treatment-.

In addition, it considers the...