Time Present and Time Past

King, Pearl

• Foreword -- Time Present and Time Past -- Introduction to Pearl King and her work -- A Psychoanalyst at Work—Clinical Issues -- Change: the psychoanalysis of a four-year-old boy and its follow-up -- Experiences of success and failure as essential to the process of development -- The curative factors in psychoanalysis -- The therapist–patient relationship -- On a patient’s unconscious need to have “bad parents” -- The affective response of the analyst to the patient’s communications -- Psychoanalysis and the Life Cycle -- Sexuality and the narcissistic character -- “For age is opportunity no less than youth itself” -- The life cycle as indicated by the nature of the transference in the psychoanalysis of the middle-aged and elderly -- On becoming an ageing psychoanalyst -- “In age I bud again”—achievements and hazards in the analysis of older patients -- Understanding the Psychoanalytic Process -- Alienation and the individual -- Time and a sense of identity -- The timing of interpretations of transference and interpersonal relations in psychoanalytic therapy -- The supervision of students in psychoanalytic training who have previously been trained as psychotherapists -- On being a psychoanalyst: integrity and vulnerability in psychoanalytic organizations -- Questions to ask (myself) about a patient’s material