Peter Fonagy Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award!This book provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of Sandler's contribution to the development of psychoanalysis, focusing on his method of combining psychoanlaytic theory and clinical practice.

Fonagy, Cooper, Joseph Sandler's Intellectual Contributions to Theoretical and Clinical Psychoanalysis. Wallerstein, A Half-Century Perspective on Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: The Historical Context of Joseph Sandler's Contributions. Renik, Wish Fulfilment and the Mastery of Trauma. Gampel, Between the Background of Safety and the Background of the Uncanny in the Context of Social Violence. Scafer, Some Reflections on the Concept of Enactment. Lebovici, Importance of Narcissistic Cathexes in the Earliest Aspects of the Object Relationship. Segal, What is an Object? The Role of Perception. Shapiro, The Representational World and the Linguistic Idiom. Hernández, Lemlij, Internal Objects: Theoretical Perimeter and Clinical Contour. Widlöcher, Unconscious Fantasy as an Experience of Action. Spector Person, Gender-Dichotomous Fantasies: Their Relationships to the Inner and Outer Worlds. Kernberg, Acute and Chronic Countertransference Reactions. Michels, Psychoanalysts' Theories. Canestri, Psychoanalytic Heuristics. Kächele, Mergenthaler, Hölzer, The Analyst's Vocabulary.

"The book should make interesting reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and all those who wish to know more about one of the most creative figures in psychoanalysis of the past few decades" - The International Journal of Psychoanalysis