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The focus of this book is a reflection on the treatment of non-neurotic structures, difficult cases, and also extreme situations. The introduction consists of two lectures by André Green, one of which (18 May 2004) discusses the turning-point of 1920, marked by the discovery of the death drive, while the other (21 February 2006) is concerned with the metapsychological implications of the death drive. Then, thirty or so analysts, invited by André Green, present clinical cases which they have encountered, their theoretical reflections on them along with their practical implications, and the technical variations which they can employ to help an analytic process get under way with these patients.
The title of this book, Lines of Advance in Psychoanalytic Therapy, echoes the title of an article by Freud, dated 1918. By this choice, André Green draws our