Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Destructive Superego and Depression -- Dependency Loneliness and Death -- Fears of Death and Fears of Dying -- Violence and Psychosis -- Grief and Psychosis -- The first year of therapy with J -- Encounters with a Psychotic Superego -- The second year with J -- Struggles to Contain Madness -- The third year of therapy with J -- Mourning Omnipotence -- The fourth year with J -- War -- The Holocaust -- Entitlement -- Sexual Identity.

Paul Terry is a consultant clinical psychologist in private practice. During a career in public health spanning four decades Paul has worked in child, adolescent, adult mental health, forensic settings, and latterly in a specialist mental health service for older people. In tandem with clinical practice, he was lecturer in Counselling at Birkbeck College, University of London.