Neville Symington is a member of the British and Australian Psychoanalytical Societies. His books include 'Narcissism: A New Theory', 'The Making of a Psychotherapist', 'A Pattern of Madness' and 'Becoming a Person Through Psychoanalysis' (all published by Karnac Books); 'The Analytic Experience', and 'The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion' (written with Joan Symington). He has a private psychoanalytic practice in New South Wales, Australia.
CONTENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR ix
CHAPTER ONE
Father 1
CHAPTER TWO
Mother 49
CHAPTER THREE
School and after school 69
CHAPTER FOUR
Nightmare in Lisbon 101
CHAPTER FIVE
The seminary 119
CHAPTER SIX
The birth of subjectivity 149
CHAPTER SEVEN
In exile 201
CHAPTER EIGHT
Disaster and recovery 261
