The subjects covered include: depression, anorexia, schizoid personality, narcissistic personality disorder, mania, psychosis, paranoia, masochism, fetishism, transvestisism, perversion, marital dysfunction, survivor syndrome, and old age.

Notes on Bibliography and Conventions -- Introduction -- Depressed patients and the coniunctio -- Success, retreat, panic: over-stimulation and depressive defence -- A psychological study of anorexia nervosa: an account of the relationship between psychic factors and bodily functioning -- Object constancy or constant object? -- Narcissistic disorder and its treatment -- Reflections on introversion and/or schizoid personality -- Reflections on Heinz Kohut's concept of narcissism -- The borderline personality: vision and healing -- The treatment of chronic psychoses -- The energy of warring and combining opposites: problems for the psychotic patient and the therapist in achieving the symbolic situation -- Schreber's delusional transference: a disorder of the self -- Masochism: the shadow side of the archetypal need to venerate and worship -- The psychopathology of fetishism and transvestism -- The androgyne: some inconclusive reflections on sexual perversions -- The archetypes in marriage -- The analyst and the damaged victims of Nazi persecution -- Working against Dorian Gray: analysis and the old