The basics -- A bit more detail -- Essential elaborations I -- Essential elaborations II : conflict disorders -- How to do an initial interview using psychoanalytic concepts -- Deficits in basic mental functions : the details with the devil in them -- Deficits in control and delay mechanisms : the nitty-gritty of weakness -- Object relations deficits and self-esteem problems : distance when you least expect it -- Superego deficits -- Libidinal and aggressive drives : sex and violence in everyday life and in pathology -- Affects : your feelings about everything -- Defenses : how the mind shields itself -- Compromise formations and psychopathology -- Adult psychiatric evaluation : the long form.