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| Acknowledgments | xii |
| Preface | xiv |
| Introduction: Notes on Being and Becoming | 1 |
| Chapter 1 Ontological Psychoanalysis or “What do You Want to be When You Grow Up?” | 9 |
| Chapter 2 The Feeling of Real: On Winnicott's “Communicating and not Communicating Leading to a Study of Certain Opposites” | 33 |
| Chapter 3 How I Talk with my Patients | 57 |
| Chapter 4 Destruction Reconceived: On Winnicott's “The Use of an Object and Relating through Identifications” | 72 |
| Chapter 5 Dreaming the Analytic Session: A Clinical Essay | 98 |
| Chapter 6 Toward a Revised Form of Analytic Thinking and Practice: The Evolution of Analytic Theory of Mind | 117 |
| Chapter 7 On Language and Truth in Psychoanalysis | 141 |
| Chapter 8 Experiencing the Poetry of Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson | 156 |
| Chapter 9 Analytic Writing as a Form of Fiction | 163 |
| Index | 167 |
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