COVER -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I CREATIVITY IN PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY -- CHAPTER ONE Creativity and authenticity -- CHAPTER TWO Discussion of "Creativity and authenticity" by Irma Brenman Pick -- CHAPTER THREE Listening, technique, and all that jazz -- CHAPTER FOUR William, did you say, "Much Ado about Nothing"? -- CHAPTER FIVE Discussion of "William, did you say: 'Much Ado about Nothing'?" by Juan Eduardo Tesone -- CHAPTER SIX Female elements and functions in creativity -- CHAPTER SEVEN Women and creativity -- PART II CREATIVITY IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PRACTICE THROUGHOUT THE LIFE CYCLE -- CHAPTER EIGHT When creativity restarts: distorted and adaptive forms -- CHAPTER NINE A little girl's analysis -- CHAPTER TEN A psychoanalyst in the labour room: the birth of emotions -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Generativity and creativity: dialogue between an obstetrician and a psychoanalyst -- CHAPTER TWELVE Dreaming about pregnancy when it is not there: two clinical cases -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN A particular kind of sterility -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Discussion of "A particular kind of sterility" by Jones de Luca -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN "With you I can bleat my heart out"- older women in psychoanalytic practice -- PART III CREATIVITY IN THE ARTS AND LITERATURE -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN Using contents from a sewing box: some aspects of the artwork of Sonia Delaunay and Louise Bourgeois -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Commentary on Brodeuses -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The voice of the mother in To the Lighthouse -- PART IV LIVING CREATIVELY IN SOCIETY -- CHAPTER NINETEEN Happily ever after: depictions of coming of age in fairy tales -- CHAPTER TWENTY Cultural altruism and masochism in women in the East -- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Horses and other animals: some background obstacles to female creativity in Russia.

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Is healing possible for women survivors of domestic violence? -- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE No peaceable woman: creativity in feminist political psychoanalysis-commemorating Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen (17.7.1917-12.6.2012) -- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Should we as psychoanalysts apologise to women? -- I. Maria Pia Conte -- II. Laura Tognoli Pasquali -- AFTERWORD -- INDEX.