Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-473) and index.

Applying psychoanalytic principles to social work practice -- Listening, hearing, and understanding in psychoanalytically oriented treatment -- Transference -- A clinical view of the use of psychoanalytic theory in front-line practice -- The good-enough social worker -- From holding to interpretation -- The beginning phases of treatment of the schizoid disorder of the self -- Maria's second chance -- The use of the telephone as a transitional space in the treatment of a severely masochistic anorexic patient -- Recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse -- The adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse -- Working with dreams of survivors of violence -- A psychoeducational-psychodynamic approach to the treatment of drug addicts -- Psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy with the HIV-infected person -- Leaking walls - a tale of the unconscious -- The child therapist and the child's parents -- From parental failure to foster parent -- Psychoanalysis and the world of two -- Ending where the client is -- In defense of long-term treatment -- Clinical supervision -- Collaboration between psychoanalysis and social work education.