Doing Things Differently

Series Editors' Preface -- Introduction -- Doing things differently: an appreciation of Donald Meltzer's contribution -- The relevance of Donald Meltzer's concept of nipple-penis confusion to selective mutism and the capacity to produce language -- Point-line-surface-space: on Donald Meltzer's concept of one- and two-dimensional mental functioning in autistic states -- Autism reconsidered -- Donald Meltzer's concept of dimensionality in clinical work with autistic patients -- Does the meta-psychological concept of dimensionality refer to a geometrical or a topological model? -- A response -- Dimensionality, identity, and security: finding a home through psychoanalysis -- The isolated adolescent -- Supervision as a space for the co-creation of imaginative conjectures -- Keeping tension close to the limit: from latency towards development -- Donald Meltzer's supervision of psychotherapy with a psychotic child -- The second life of dreaming -- On having ideas: the aesthetic object and O -- Degrees of entrapment: living and dying in the claustrum -- Trapped in a claustrum world: the proleptic imagination and James Joyce's Ulysses -- Gaudete: a response to Mary Fisher-Adams -- A mind of one's own: therapy with a patient contending with excessive intrusive identification and claustrum phenomena -- Battered women lose their minds -- Concluding thoughts on the nature of psychoanalytic activity