The basics -- A bit more detail -- Essential elaborations I : deficit disorders -- Essential elaborations II : conflict disorders -- How to do an initial interview using psychoanalytic concepts : brief format: 24 to 41 minutes -- 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 : conscience and ego ideal lacunae -- 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 : everything you wanted to repress about conflict disorders -- Adult psychiatric evaluation : the long form