Marilyn Charles, PhD is a staff psychologist at the Austen Riggs Center and a psychoanalyst in private practice in Stockbridge and Richmond, Massachusetts. She is also an adjunct professor of clinical psychology at Michigan State University.

• ContentsForeword by Michael O'LoughlinPrologueAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: The Subject Caught by the Desire of the OtherChapter 3: Stumbling over the Gap: "The Unconscious is Structured Like a Language"Chapter 4: Shame and the Possibility of InsightChapter 5: Development, Negation, and the Desire to Turn a Blind EyeChapter 6: Development, Negation, and the Desire to Turn a Blind Eye, Part II: PerversionChapter 7: Working with Trauma: Attacks on Linking and Empty SpeechChapter 8: Passage into Action and the Fear of BreakdownChapter 9: Telling Trauma: Working with PsychosisChapter 10: Telling Trauma, Part II: Signs, Symbols, and SymptomsChapter 11: Meetings at the EdgeEpilogueReferencesIndexAbout the Author

Psychoanalysis continues to open and explore realities important for living. Marilyn Charles mediates vital concepts of psychoanalysis today and demonstrates its relevance for our current predicaments and needs.