Her Hour Come Round at Last

'Nina Coltart was a courageous analyst who insisted on speaking with a voice that was distinctively her own. Her Hour Come Round at Last comprises of several essays not included in her three collections and some previously unpublished writings, along with tributes paid to her by friends, patients, colleagues, and others. Taken together, these pieces manage to convey a sense of who Nina Coltart was in all her full and complex humanity.'- Thomas H. Ogden, MDContents:FOREWORD - Brett KahrINTRODUCTION - Peter L. RudnytskyPART I: TRIBUTES (A) PATIENTSCHAPTER ONE: Nina-isms - Susan BuddCHAPTER TWO: Ways of knowing - Muriel Mitcheson BrownCHAPTER THREE: Nina and the parcel - Alex Douglas-MorrisCHAPTER FOUR: A Buddhist way of seeing - Barbara HopkinsonCHAPTER FIVE: A one-off visit - Kathleen MurphyTRIBUTES (B) SUPERVISEESCHAPTER SIX: A whole attitude to life and work - Michael BrearleyCHAPTER SEVEN: Charisma - Mary TwymanCHAPTER EIGHT: Nina Coltart the consultant: hospitality conditional and unconditional - Pina AntinucciCHAPTER NINE: My Nina - Maggie SchaedelCHAPTER TEN: An "internal supervisor" - Elizabeth Wilde McCormickCHAPTER ELEVEN: Baby Peter - Mary LeattTRIBUTES (C) FRIENDS CHAPTER TWELVE: Homage to a valued friend - A. H. BrafmanCHAPTER THIRTEEN: A recollection of friendship - Nina FarhiCHAPTER FOURTEEN: My pen pal - Gill DaviesCHAPTER FIFTEEN: The silent listener - Mona SereniusCHAPTER SIXTEEN: Nina Coltart: a person of paradox - Stuart A. PizerCHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Cometh the hour - Brendan MacCarthyTRIBUTES (D) SCHOOLMATESCHAPTER EIGHTEEN: School friends - Janet MothersillCHAPTER NINETEEN: That sense of awe - Jane ReidCHAPTER TWENTY: A knock on my door - Antonia GransdenCHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: A very special time - Anne E. KnightTRIBUTES (E) FAMILYCHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Little Christmas - Mary NottidgeCHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: A chink of craziness - Penelope TwineCHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: Memories of Neen - Martin PrestonCHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Word games - David PrestonCHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: A five-minute introduction - Gillian PrestonTRIBUTES (F) READERSCHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Bare attention: the love that is enough? - Gherardo Amadei and Sara BoffitoCHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: In praise of Nina Coltart - Peter L. RudnytskyCHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: For Nina Coltart: in memoriam, or calling the thing by its name - Anthony MolinoPART II: UNCOLLECTED WRITINGS (A) TRAVELSCHAPTER THIRTY: The Grand Tour of New EnglandCHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: The Trans-Siberian RailwayCHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: A Tuscan holidayCHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: Hotel drama in New YorkUNCOLLECTED WRITINGS (B) ESSAYSCHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: Diagnosis and assessment of suitability for psychoanalytic psychotherapyCHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: The assessment of psychological-mindedness in the psychiatric interviewCHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: To go or not to goCHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN: Psychoanalysis and Buddhism: does the ego exist?CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT: Self-regardingCHAPTER THIRTY-NINE: Ingredient X UNCOLLECTED WRITINGS (C) REVIEWSCHAPTER FORTY: Reason and Violence, by R. D. Laing and D. G. Cooper CHAPTER FORTY-ONE: The Technique at Issue: Controversies in Psychoanalysis from Freud and Ferenczi to Michael Balint, by Andre HaynalCHAPTER FORTY-TWO: Mother, Madonna, Whore: The Idealization and Denigration of Motherhood, by Estela V. WelldonCHAPTER FORTY-THREE: Forces of Destiny: Psychoanalysis and Human Idiom, by Christopher BollasCHAPTER FORTY-FOUR: Ignatius of Loyola: The Psychology of a Saint, by W. W. MeissnerCHAPTER FORTY-FIVE: Body, Blood and Sexuality: A Psychoanalytic Study of St. Francis's Stigmata and Their Historical Context, by Nitza YaromCHAPTER FORTY-SIX: The Electrified Tightrope, by Michael Eigen CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN: Cultivating Intuition: An Introduction to Psychotherapy, by Peter LomasCHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT: Some comments on The Silent Cry, by Mona SereniusUNCOLLECTED WRITINGS (D) OBITUARIESCHAPTER FORTY-NINE: Dr Maurice FriedmanCHAPTER FIFTY: Jafar Kareem UNCOLLECTED WRITINGS (E) CURRICULUM VITAECHAPTER FIFTY-ON

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