CONTENTS

Introduction

Part I: The Key to Unlocking the Symptom: The One, Two, Three, and Four of Symptom Cure

1   Point One Is the Wish

2   Point Two Is the Anger

3   Point Three Is the Who

4   Point Four Is To Do

Part II: Let’s Try Using the Symptom Code with Actual Symptoms

5   A Case of Compulsion: Bottles under the Bed

6   A Case of an Intrusive Thought: Fear of Strangling Someone

7   A Case of Morbid Preoccupation: Gazing at Corpses

8   A Case of Body Delusion: Holes All Over My Body

9   A Case of Obsession: Thinking about Death

Part III: What Does the Symptom Really Mean?

10   The Symptom is a Neurotic Way to Gratify the Original Wish

11   Inaccessible Symptoms: Those that Resist the Cure, and Why

Part IV: Symptoms that Need Medicine to be Cured

12   A Case of Compulsive Hoarding: Chaos

13   A Case of Anorexia: “Not Thin Enough”

14   A Case of Agoraphobia: “I’m Not Going to Work Today!”

15   A Case of Delusional Self-Incrimination: “No Writing!”

16   A Case of Split Personality: The Sexual Self, the Aggressive Self, and the Self Self

Part V: Summary of the Symptom Code

17   Summary of the Symptom Code and All Its Phases

Index

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