The Basic Fault

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Title Page Contents How to Read The Basic Fault (Ornstein) Preface to the 1979 Reprint (E. Balint) Preface Part I. The three areas of the mind 1. The therapeutic processes and their localization 2. Interpretation and working-through 3. The two levels of analytic work 4. The area of the basic fault 5. The area of creation 6. Summary Part II. Primary narcissism and primary love 7. Freud's three theories 8. Inherent contradictions 9. Clinical facts about narcissism 10. Schizophrenia, addiction, and other narcissistic conditions 11. Ante-natal and early post-natal states 12. Primary Love 13. Adult Love Part III. The gulf and the analyst's responses to it 14. Regression and the child in the patient 15. The problem of language in upbringing and in psychoanalytic treatment 16. The classical technique and its limitations 17. The hazards inherent in consistent interpretation 18. The hazards inherent in managing the regression Part IV. The benign and the malignant forms of regression 19. Freud and the idea of regression 20. Symptomatology and diagnosis 21. Gratifications and object relationships 22. The various forms of therapeutic regression 23. The disagreement between Freud and Ferenczi, and its repercussions Part V. The regressed patient and his analyst 24. Therapeutic regression, primary love, and the basic fault 25. The unobtrusive analyst 26. Bridging the gulf Bibliography Index