I. Loss : If only Bert were here / Lorrie Moore
Transference / Peter Collier
Surprised by joy / Charles Baxter
Imaginary problems / Francine Prose
II. Secrets and Lies : Keller's therapy / Lawrence Block
The whole truth / Stephen McCauley
III. Power and Dependence : The gentleman / Martha McPhee
The fairy godfathers / John Updike
The age of analysis / Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Crazy for loving you / James Gorman
The psychopathology of everyday life / Jonathan Baumbach
Samaritan / Steven Barthelme
IV. Limitations : The mysterious case of R / Frank Conroy
Psychoanalysis changed my life / Amy Bloom
Basil from her garden / Donald Barthelme
V. Love : The patient / Barbara Lawrence
I'm rubber, you're glue / Daniel Menaker
Influenza / Daniel Menaker
Afterword: Twentieth-century delphic mysteries / Sheldon Roth.
