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The book starts with 15 case studies with different emphases: Three cases in which obsession is crucial, two in which hysteria is central, another in which anorexia is central, several in which paranoia is prevalent, two schizophrenic cases and one in which manic-depression is central.
The book then has a chapter with vignettes used to illustrate a number of themes such as “space-centered concrete thinking”, “projective expulsion and its paranoid consequences”, “murderous sibling rivalry”, “death of siblings in infancy”, “body image”, “location of objects-oral incorporation, anal expulsion, oral re-incorporation”, “part-object identifications”, and “dangerous teeth-the biter bitten.” Chapter 17 is called “Mostly Theory”. Here the reader can enjoy a very readable brief exposition of the contributions of the early psychoanalysts