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| I. | Introduction | 9 |
| II. | The Practice Setting | 13 |
| III. | Amazons — and Others | 18 |
| IV. | Infantile Asthma: Containing the Anxiety | 26 |
| V. | A Five- Year-Old Child and her Grandmother | 34 |
| VI. | Adolescent Confusions | 41 |
| VII. | On Being Unable to Weep | 48 |
| VIII. | Depression in Adult Life: Working and Weeping | 54 |
| IX. | Intimations of Mortality: Bereavement, Sickness, Hypochondria | 61 |
| X. | On the Brink | 69 |
| XI. | On Resistance | 75 |
| XII. | On Being Unable to Cure Psychosis | 83 |
| XIII. | Bion's ‘Protomental System’ and Psychosomatic Illness in General Practice | 89 |
| XIV. | Counter-Transference and the Structure of the Mind | 96 |
| XV. | Epilogue: The Lady with the Miniatures | 100 |
| Bibliography | 109 | |
| Illustrations | between 40 & 41 |