COVER -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- PART ONE The work of Sigmund Freud -- CHAPTER ONE Mind and nature: the context of Freud's work -- CHAPTER TWO Freud, Breuer, and hysteria: the cathartic method -- CHAPTER THREE The very core of nature: the beginnings of psychoanalysis -- CHAPTER FOUR Screens and seductions: the rise and fall of the seduction theory -- CHAPTER FlVE Sweet dreams: Freud's topographical model -- CHAPTER SIX Sex from the inside: Freud's theory of sexuality -- CHAPTER SEVEN Illusion and reality: transference and psychoanalytic technique -- CHAPTER ElGHT The psychology of the "I": Freud's ego psychology -- PART TWO Psychoanalysis after Freud -- CHAPTER NINE Enfant terrible: Wilhelm Reich in Vienna -- CHAPTER TEN New positions: Kleinian psychoanalysis -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Winnicott in transition: a British Independent -- CHAPTER TWELVE Self and object in America: the American Object Relations School and self psychology -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Grunbaum shakes the foundations: criticism from the philosophy of science -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Langs's raw message: communicative psychoanalysis -- Coda -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.