Acknowledgments Preface SECTION I - CLINICAL Chapter One: "The therapist must be alert to personal problems" Chapter Two: "It is necessary to meet and directly interact with alter personalities" Chapter Three: "Therapy can be strenuous" Chapter Four: "Nothing happened to me!" Chapter Five: "Nice life" Chapter Six: "What is wrong with my mother?" Chapter Seven: "The intense symbiotic dyads are very hard for the therapist to penetrate" Chapter Eight: "God, I'm going to miss little Claire" Chapter Nine: "It would be premature to cast the syndrome into a rigid form" SECTION II - THEORETICAL Chapter Ten: Psychiatric Diagnosis Chapter Eleven: The Syndrome I Chapter Twelve: The Syndrome II Chapter Thirteen: The Syndrome III Chapter Fourteen: Treatment: non-psychoanalytic techniques Chapter Fifteen: Treatment: psychoanalytic perspectives I Chapter Sixteen: Treatment: psychoanalytic perspectives II Chapter Seventeen: Narrative Chapter Eighteen: Neurobiological considerations Chapter Nineteen: Conclusion Postscript References About the Author Index
