Stephen Frosh is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London, an Academic Associate of the British Psychoanalytical Society and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He is the author of many books and papers on psychosocial studies and on psychoanalysis.

• Preface to the Second EditionPART ONE: FREUDIAN THEORYChapter 1: The Appeal of PsychoanalysisChapter 2: Main Schools of PsychoanalysisChapter 3: What Freud was Trying to DoChapter 4: The Freudian UnconsciousChapter 5: Sex, aggression, life and deathChapter 6: Repression and Other DefencesChapter 7: The Structure of the Mind: id, ego, superego.Chapter 8: Oedipus, Masculinity, FemininityChapter 9: Psychopathology: What Makes Us Sad (and Mad)PART TWO: DEVELOPMENTS IN PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORYChapter 10: Psychoanalysts after FreudChapter 11: Attachment, Mentalisation and NeuropsychoanalysisChapter 12: The Principles of Object Relations TheoryChapter 13: Mourning, Melancholia, Loss and TraumaChapter 14: The Paranoid-Schizoid Position and Other ExtremesChapter 15: Projection and PsychosisChapter 16: Imaginary, Symbolic and Real: Lacanian psychoanalysisPART THREE: THEORY OF THERAPY Chapter 17: Interpretation and Transference Chapter 18: Countertransference and Intersubjectivity PART FOUR: WIDER APPLICATIONSChapter 19: Psychoanalysis, Film and LiteratureChapter 20: Politics and SocietyChapter 21: Class, Gender and RaceConclusionRecommended Reading

This most impressive book should be welcomed not only by all coming new to the detailed study of psychoanalysis but also by experienced clinicians and trainees from many psychotherapeutic approaches.