Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Social and Psychological Challenges to Psychoanalysis in the New Millennium -- Chapter 1. The Case of the Unpatriotic Prostitute: Psychoanalysis and Moral Responsibility -- Chapter 2. The Case of the Adolescent Murderer: The Refusal to Self-Examine -- Chapter 3. The Client Whose Rage Lacked a Voice: Sin or Sickness? -- Chapter 4. The Client Who Assumed His Analyst's Identity: A Psychology of Self-Deception, Consciousness, and Memory -- Chapter 5. The Client Who Arranged to Have Her Husband Murdered: Psychological Defenses as Emotional Strategies -- Chapter 6. The Case of the Suspected Rapist: An Analyst's Uncertain Knowledge -- Chapter 7. An Encounter with an Unfortunate Child: The Role of Shame in Constructive Behavior -- Chapter 8. The Client with a Deadly Secret: Learning to Listen to Oneself -- Chapter 9. The Client with Destructive Longing: A Psychoanalytic Theory of Love -- Chapter 10. Psychoanalysis as Hope, Compassion, and Responsibility -- THEORY AND METHOD -- A. The Dilemmas of American Society -- B. The Evil We Do: The Primary and Secondary Factors that Promote Destructive Behavior -- C. Basic Emotional Communication for Intimacy and Interpersonal Connectedness.