Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. When the Center Cannot Hold -- Part One. Building a Secure Attachment -- Chapter One. Anxiety: The Signal of Danger -- Chapter Two. Declaring a Problem: Is It Safe to Depend? -- Chapter Three. Declaring One's Will: Is It Safe to Have a Separate Will? -- Chapter Four. Psychodiagnosis: Co-Creating an Effective Focus -- Chapter Five. Co-Creating a Therapeutic Alliance: Making the Unconscious Will to Health Conscious -- Part Two. Strengthening the Patient
Chapter Six. Systems of Self-Protection: The Hierarchy of Affect Thresholds -- Chapter Seven. Declaring One's Feelings: Is It Safe to Share Feelings? -- Chapter Eight. Restoring Lost Capacities -- Part Three. Integrating the Patient -- Chapter Nine. Denial: Learning to Face Reality -- Chapter Ten. Splitting: Learning to Tolerate Complex Feelings and Realities -- Chapter Eleven. Projection: Learning to Feel Inside What We Placed Outside -- Chapter Twelve. Severe Fragility: Pseudohallucinations and Pseudodelusions
Chapter Thirteen. Projective Identification and Countertransference: Learning to Bear What Is Inside Ourselves -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- About the Author