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| List of Contributors | xi |
| Acknowledgements | xiii |
| Foreword by Dr John Steiner | xiv |
| Introduction Sharon Numa | 1 |
| Chapter 1 An Outline of the Kleinian Model of the Mind and Its Implications for the Understanding of Personal Identity Sharon Numa | 25 |
| Chapter 2 Identification and Pathological Identification: Implications for Identity Anne Amos | 58 |
| Chapter 3 The Cerebral Mind Versus the Body Mind: Containing and Recovering Unknown Parts of the Self Susan Lawrence | 77 |
| Chapter 4 Orientation, Disorientation and Identity Development: An Illustration from Dante's Divine Comedy Giovanna Rita Di Ceglie | 99 |
| Chapter 5 A Mind of One's Own: The Growth of Identity in an Adult Patient Caroline Garland | 123 |
| Chapter 6 Failure to Mourn: Idealisation, Illusion and Identity Sharon Numa | 145 |
| Chapter 7 Identity and the Struggle to “Be” in the Face of Distorting Projections from an Ill Object Philip Crockatt | 171 |
| Chapter 8 A Lost Child: The Failure to Develop an Identity Judith Jackson | 192 |
| Chapter 9 Forming an Identity: From Somatisation and Hypochondriasis to Hysteria and Beyond Anne Amos | 215 |
| Chapter 10 ‘If You Are Not My Mum, Who Are You?’: A Woman's Analytic Journey from a Melancholic Identifcation to an Identity of her Own Orna Hadary | 230 |
| Chapter 11 Liquid Fear: A Dissolving Identity Sharon Numa | 245 |
| Chapter 12 Identity as the Threads of Meaning Through a Person's Life Denis Flynn | 269 |
| Index |
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