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| Preface to the 1979 Reprint by Enid Balint | vii | |
| Preface | ix | |
| PART I · The three areas of the mind | ||
| Chapter 1. | The therapeutic processes and their localization | 3 |
| Chapter 2. | Interpretation and working-through | 8 |
| Chapter 3. | The two levels of analytic work | 11 |
| Chapter 4. | The area of the basic fault | 18 |
| Chapter 5. | The area of creation | 24 |
| Chapter 6. | Summary | 28 |
| PART II · Primary narcissism and primary love | ||
| Chapter 7. | Freud's three theories | 35 |
| Chapter 8. | Inherent contradictions | 40 |
| Chapter 9. | Clinical facts about narcissism | 46 |
| Chapter 10. | Schizophrenia, addiction, and other narcissistic conditions | 52 |
| Chapter 11. | Ante-natal and early post-natal states | 59 |
| Chapter 12. | Primary love | 64 |
| Chapter 13. | Adult love | 73 |
| PART III · The gulf and the analyst's responses to it | ||
| Chapter 14. | Regression and the child in the patient | 79 |
| Chapter 15. | The problem of language in upbringing and in psychoanalytical treatment | 92 |
| Chapter 16. | The classical technique and its limitations | 99 |
| Chapter 17. | The hazards inherent in consistent interpretation | 104 |
| Chapter 18. | The hazards inherent in managing the regression | 110 |
| PART IV · The benign and the malignant forms of regression | ||
| Chapter 19. | Freud and the idea of regression | 119 |
| Chapter 20. | Symptomatology and diagnosis | 127 |
| The disagreement between Freud and Ferenczi, and its repercussions |
| 149 |
| PART V · The regressed patient and his analyst | ||
| Chapter 24. | Therapeutic regression, primary love, and the basic fault | 159 |
| Chapter 25. | The unobtrusive analyst | 173 |
| Chapter 26. | Bridging the gulf | 182 |
| Bibliography | 189 |
| Special bibliography on oral dependence and related states | 195 |