Paul Gray earned his B.A. and M.D. degrees at the University of Chicago. As a training and supervising analyst with the Baltimore-Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis for many years, he taught candidates and graduates, as well as social workers and psychiatric residents in the community. Elected twice as Councillor-at-Large, Dr. Gray was active with the American Psychoanalytic Association. For more than thirty years he was a regular participant in the semi-annual conferences of the Center for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies, held in Princeton, NJ. In 1997, Dr. Gray gave the Freud Memorial Lecture at the New York Psychoanalytic Society. In 2000, he received the American Psychoanalytic Association Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychoanalytic Education, and was the recipient of the Mary S. Sigourney Trust Honorary Award for Outstanding Contribution to Psychoanalysis.

This volume reflects Gray's constant emphasis on the centrality of listening in psychoanalytic technique. Gray demystifies and defines the necessary ego capacities within both the analyst and patient and explicates the technical focus and tools required by the analyst and the resistance used by patients.

• Chapter 1 Foreword to the Second EditionChapter 2 ForewordChapter 3 PrefaceChapter 4 AcknowledgmentsPart 5 Part I: TechniqueChapter 6 The Capacity for Viewing Intrapsychic ActivityChapter 7 ''Developmental Lag'' in the Evolution of TechniqueChapter 8 On Helping Analysands Observe Intrapsychic ActivityChapter 9 The Nature of Therapeutic Action in PsychoanalysisChapter 10 The Analysis of the Ego's Inhibiting Superego ActivitiesChapter 11 The Analysis of the Ego's Permissive SuperegoChapter 12 Memory as Resistance, and the Telling of a DreamPart 13 Part II: Teaching and Supervisory GuidelinesChapter 14 A Guide to Analysis of the Ego in ConflictChapter 15 Brief Psychotherapy, Dynamic Psychotherapy, and PsychoanalysisChapter 16 The Ego's Predictable Response to the Unfamiliar Analytic SituationChapter 17 A Brief Historical Perspective Regarding Defenses against Instinctual Drive Derivatives Reaching ConsciousnessChapter 18 Reflections on SupervisionChapter 19 Elements of SupervisionChapter 20 A Conversation with Paul GrayChapter 21 Undoing the Lag in the Technique of Conflict and Defense AnalysisChapter 22 Facilitating the Analysis of Conflicted Drive Derivatives of AggressionChapter 23 Close Process Attention and TerminationChapter 24 ReferencesChapter 25 CreditsChapter 26 IndexChapter 27 About the Author