Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Psychotic features in obsessive-compulsive neurosis: "Ada" -- Obsessional symptoms following adolescent psychosis: "Brenda" -- Obsessions in schizophrenia: "Alec" -- Paranoid schizophrenia--command hallucinations: "Brian" -- Hysterical psychosis: "Claudia" -- Anorexia, psychosis, and the question of sexual abuse: "Dorothy" -- Paranoid schizophrenia--space--time factors: "Conrad" -- Chronic paranoid schizophrenia--schizoid thinking: "Ellen" -- Paranoid violence: "Duncan" -- Schizophrenia--psychotherapy, termination, reparation: "Florence" -- Paranoid psychosis--delusional body image: "Elmer" -- Paranoid delusions--sealing-over and working through a psychotic transference: "Frank" -- Phobia, hysteria, psychosis: "Grace" -- Chronic schizophrenia--catatonic and spatial features: "George" -- Manic-depressive psychosis: "Harry" -- Vignettes -- Mostly theory -- Mostly practice -- Conclusions -- Characteristics of schizoid thinking -- Infancy research and the "right mind" -- The future--winds of change.