But at the Same Time and on Another Level

S. Grotstein, James

• Preface -- Psychoanalytic Technique -- The consultative interview: initial session -- The analysis begins: establishing the frame -- Recommendations on technique: Freud, Klein, Bion, Meltzer -- How to listen and what to interpret -- Termination -- The psychoanalytic treatment of psychotic and borderline states and other primitive mental disorders -- Basic assumptions of Kleinian/Bionian technique: a recapitulation -- Case Presentations -- Introduction -- Clinical example -- Clinical example 2 -- Clinical example 3: brief case illustration of the predominantly “Bionian” mode of technique -- Clinical example 4: a patient analysed in the style (my version) of the Contemporary Kleinians -- Clinical example 5: “bicycles” -- Clinical example 6 -- Clinical example 7 -- Clinical example 8 -- Clinical example 9 -- Clinical example 10 -- Clinical example 11 -- Clinical example 12: psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy -- Clinical example 13 -- Clinical example 14: dream analysis in an analytic session -- Clinical example 15 -- Clinical example 16 -- Clinical example 17 -- Clinical example 18 -- Clinical example 19 -- Clinical example 20: “The woman who couldn’t consider” -- Epilogue