The analytic literature has heretofore been silent about the issues inherent in the nuclear threat. As a groundbreaking exploration of new psychological terrain, Psychoanalysis and the Nuclear Threat will function as a source book for what, it is hoped, will be the continuing effort of analysts and other mental health professionals to explore and engage in-depth nuclear issues.

Introduction, Levine, Simon I. Theoretical Section 1. Freud's Fearful Symmetry: Further Reflections on the Life and Death Instincts, Gifford 2. Silence Is the Real Crime, Segal 3. Apocalyptic Thinking in the Nuclear Age, Ostow 4. A Short Essay on the Apocalypse, Chasseguet-Smirgel 5. Impending Nuclear Disaster: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Meissner 6. Nuclear Weapons and the Need to Have Enemies: A Psychoanalytic Perspective, Volkan 7. Gender Differences and the Nuclear Threat: Preliminary Reflections, Notman 8. Strategists, Psychoanalysts, and Nuclear Deterrence, Steinberg II. Clinical Section 9. Love, Work, and Survival: Psychoanalysis in the Nuclear Age, Jacobs 10. The Threat of Nuclear War in Clinical Work: Dynamic and Theoretical Considerations, Mack 11. Further Clinical Considerations of the Psychological Fallout of the Nuclear Threat, Wangh 12. Psychoanalytic Explorations of the Impact of the Threat of Nuclear Disaster on the Young, Parens 13. Melancholia, Mourning, and the Nuclear Threat, Rubin 14. Hiroshim and Denial, Taketomo