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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Disturbances of the Depressive Position Chapter One: The As-If Way of Life Versus the As-Is Way of Life: Confusions between Servant, Master, and Self Chapter Two: Low Frequency Psychoanalytic Engagement with a Depressive Patient: The Beginning Phase of Treatment from a Kleinian Approach Chapter Three: The Graveyard Sentry, Self-Induced Comas, and Building the Better Beast Chapter Four: The Dark Side of the Depressive Position: Severe Struggles with Guilt, Persecutory Loss, and Excessive Reliance on Projective Identification Part Two: Kleinian Work within the Narcissistic Realm Chapter Five: The Difficulties of Working with Thick-Skinned Narcissists: Envy, Projective Identification, and the Internal Void Chapter Six: Striving Toward Useful Interpretations with Narcissistic Patients: Managing Counter-transference Enactments with a Thick-Skinned Narcissist Chapter Seven: Patients Who Avoid the Threat of Persecutory Mourning by Means of Entitlement, Devaluation, and a Demand for Action Chapter Eight: “I Thought I Was Special. If Not, I am Nothing”: The Treatment of Primitive Loss and the Defensive Search for Uniqueness Chapter Nine: Lack of Traction in the Analytic Process: Adrift in the Counter-transference Closing Bibliography
