Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-166) and index.
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Contents
Theoretical context -- History of symptom psychology -- Underpinnings of the symptom-code -- Symptom-code and its application -- On wishes, symptoms, and withdrawal -- Clinical casebook: accessible symptoms -- Bottles under the bed: a case of compulsion -- Holes: a case of body delusion -- Symptoms based upon feelings of rejection: strangling, sweats, and death -- Gazing at corpses: a case of morbid compulsion -- Sin of the priest: a case of obsession -- Ingenious regression: a case of hallucination -- Panic on the bridge: a case of selective agoraphobia -- I can hardly move: a case of a three-day migraine -- Doubled over: a case of displaced phallic obsession -- Clinical casebook: inaccessible symptoms -- Psychology of blushing: involuntary disclosure of success wishes -- No writing!: a case of delusional self-incrimination -- I'm not going to work today: a case of agoraphobia -- Chaos: a case of compulsive collecting and hoarding -- Not thin enough!: a case of anorexia -- Dissociative identity disorder: a case of split personality -- Asperger's mind: an examination of the case of Nobelian John Forbes Nash, Jr. -- Examining theoretical issues of the symptom-code -- Acting out: the first symptom and the primacy of anger or sex -- Symptoms versus character traits: accessible versus inaccessible symptoms -- Metamorphosis of symptoms: the domain of wishes and the domain of traits.