Professor Brett Kahr has worked in the mental health field for over forty years. He is Senior Fellow at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology in London and Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London. A Trustee of the Freud Museum London and of Freud Museum Publications, he has written or edited fourteen books, and he has served as series editor for more than fifty-five other titles. He is Consultant Psychotherapist at The Balint Consultancy and works full-time with individuals and couples in London.

Introduction.

PART I. ENGAGING WITH BOMBS.

1. The Paedophile Who Threatened My Life.

2. From the Treatment of a Compulsive Spitter: A Psychoanalytical Approach to Profound Disability.

3. The Intra-Marital Affair: From Erotic Tumour to Conjugal Aneurysm.

4. Sexual Cruelty in the Marital Bed: Unconscious Sadism in Non-Forensic Couples.

5. Committing Crimes without Breaking the Law: Unconscious Sadism in the "Non-Forensic" Patient.

PART II. INFLAMING AND DEFUSING BOMBS.

6. Donald Winnicott¿s Struggle with Hate in the Counter-Transference.

7. "How to Cure Family Disturbance": Enid Eichholz Balint and the Creation of Couple Psychoanalysis.

8. The Ten Best Interpretations in the History of Psychoanalysis

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

References

Index