Vamik D. Volkan, M.D. is the Senior Erik Erikson Scholar at the Erikson Institute of Education and Research of the Austen Riggs Center, an emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia, an emeritus training and supervising analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, and a guest lecturer at the Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute.J. Christopher Fowler, Ph.D. is director of research at the Erik H. Erikson Institute, Austen Riggs Center. He is a fellow of the Society for Personality Assessment, consulting editor for the Journal of Personality Assessment, and a member of the Society for Psychotherapy Research.

This is an eminent basic psychoanalytic text—based on a case history—by an empathic, classical analyst, working with a generous, interesting patient. Both beginners and experienced analysts can profit from it. Volkan also succeeds in showing the importance of transgenerational transmission and its power in creating symptoms and personality traits.

• Chapter 1 1. Dr. Schreber's ShadowChapter 2 2. A Boy in a MailboxChapter 3 3. Inky MessesChapter 4 4. Pineapple Upside-down CakeChapter 5 5. Madonna and the Dead ChildChapter 6 6. Shrinking the Torture ChamberChapter 7 7. Finding and Letting Go a Warm BreastChapter 8 8. Why Did Ataturk Encourage Turkish Women to Remove Their Veils?Chapter 9 9. Joining the Man's WorldChapter 10 10. You Have Your Tools and I Have MineChapter 11 11. The Gulf War and the Mannequins of the American Civil WarChapter 12 12. Taking StockChapter 13 13. A Blue Ribbon FamilyChapter 14 14. Years Later

Vamik D. Volkan, M.D. is the Senior Erik Erikson Scholar at the Erikson Institute of Education and Research of the Austen Riggs Center, an emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia, an emeritus training and supervising analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, and a guest lecturer at the Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute.J. Christopher Fowler, Ph.D. is director of research at the Erik H. Erikson Institute, Austen Riggs Center. He is a fellow of the Society for Personality Assessment, consulting editor for the Journal of Personality Assessment, and a member of the Society for Psychotherapy Research.

This is an eminent basic psychoanalytic text—based on a case history—by an empathic, classical analyst, working with a generous, interesting patient. Both beginners and experienced analysts can profit from it. Volkan also succeeds in showing the importance of transgenerational transmission and its power in creating symptoms and personality traits.

• Chapter 1 1. Dr. Schreber's ShadowChapter 2 2. A Boy in a MailboxChapter 3 3. Inky MessesChapter 4 4. Pineapple Upside-down CakeChapter 5 5. Madonna and the Dead ChildChapter 6 6. Shrinking the Torture ChamberChapter 7 7. Finding and Letting Go a Warm BreastChapter 8 8. Why Did Ataturk Encourage Turkish Women to Remove Their Veils?Chapter 9 9. Joining the Man's WorldChapter 10 10. You Have Your Tools and I Have MineChapter 11 11. The Gulf War and the Mannequins of the American Civil WarChapter 12 12. Taking StockChapter 13 13. A Blue Ribbon FamilyChapter 14 14. Years Later

Vamik D. Volkan, M.D. is the Senior Erik Erikson Scholar at the Erikson Institute of Education and Research of the Austen Riggs Center, an emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia, an emeritus training and supervising analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, and a guest lecturer at the Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute.J. Christopher Fowler, Ph.D. is director of research at the Erik H. Erikson Institute, Austen Riggs Center. He is a fellow of the Society for Personality Assessment, consulting editor for the Journal of Personality Assessment, and a member of the Society for Psychotherapy Research.

This is an eminent basic psychoanalytic text—based on a case history—by an empathic, classical analyst, working with a generous, interesting patient. Both beginners and experienced analysts can profit from it. Volkan also succeeds in showing the importance of transgenerational transmission and its power in creating symptoms and personality traits.

• Chapter 1 1. Dr. Schreber's ShadowChapter 2 2. A Boy in a MailboxChapter 3 3. Inky MessesChapter 4 4. Pineapple Upside-down CakeChapter 5 5. Madonna and the Dead ChildChapter 6 6. Shrinking the Torture ChamberChapter 7 7. Finding and Letting Go a Warm BreastChapter 8 8. Why Did Ataturk Encourage Turkish Women to Remove Their Veils?Chapter 9 9. Joining the Man's WorldChapter 10 10. You Have Your Tools and I Have MineChapter 11 11. The Gulf War and the Mannequins of the American Civil WarChapter 12 12. Taking StockChapter 13 13. A Blue Ribbon FamilyChapter 14 14. Years Later