Cover -- Copy Right -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: ON TABOO -- CHAPTER ONE: Taboo: its origins and its current echoes -- CHAPTER TWO: Some taboo implications of current fashions in psychoanalysis -- PART II: EXPRESSIONS OF EROS -- CHAPTER THREE: Sexual excitement in the transference-countertransference situation -- CHAPTER FOUR: Sexual taboo in the analyst: yes or no? -- CHAPTER FIVE: Grappling with tenderness in psychoanalysis -- PART III: TRANSCENDING TRADITIONAL THOUGHT: BUDDHISM AND SPIRITUALITY -- CHAPTER SIX: Self or no self: psychoanalytic and Buddhist perspectives on neuroendocrine events and subjective experience -- CHAPTER SEVEN: There is more than meets the I: psychoanalytic reflections on spirituality -- PART IV: FINANCIAL AFFAIRS -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Down low and dirty: talking about how money matters, especially on a sliding scale -- CHAPTER NINE: For a fistful of dollars: psychoanalytic issues in handling cash payments -- CHAPTER TEN: When the patient has more real world power than the analyst -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: The analyst and the bribe -- PART V: CONFIDENTIALITY: TOO MUCH OR TOO LITTLE? -- CHAPTER TWELVE: Confidentiality in the public realm: what and whose is it? -- PART VI: FACING REAL WORLD ISSUES -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Can psychoanalysis exist outside the consulting room? -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: When analysts need to retire: the taboo of ageing in psychoanalysis -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Behind closed doors: what analysts say to one another about the practice of psychoanalysis -- PART VII: SELF-DISCLOSURE: TO DO OR NOT TO DO? -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Non-countertransferential self-disclosure in psychoanalysis -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Analytic safety through the analyst's availability as a subject -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: To know without being told and to allow oneself to say.

PART VIII: PROSCRIBED INTERVENTIONS -- CHAPTER NINETEEN: A forbidden transaction: enactment or procedural interpretation? -- CHAPTER TWENTY: To touch or not to touch in the psychoanalytic arena -- PART IX: REFLECTIONS -- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: What is taboo and not taboo in psychoanalysis? -- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Epilogue: Glancing back, facing forward. "Final" thoughts on taboo.