This is a book that assembles and integrates the author's clinical work and thinking over the many years of her working life. Part1 focuses on patients with specific types of psychopathology and explores particular difficulties in technique and thinking. Part2 addresses the issues of love, hate, and the erotic. In Part3, specific challenges to the psychotherapeutic frame are demonstrated in chapters on enactments and on work with an absent patient. Richly illustrated throughout with clinical vignettes, above all,the authorstresses the importance of the enquiring mind and the struggle not to...