| Foreword | |
| Chronology of Rank's Life (1884-1939) | |
| Editor's Notes to the Reader | |
| Introduction. Insight and Blindness: Visions of Rank | 3 |
| Pt. 1 | The Trauma of Birth: "A Much Stronger Repression Than Even Infantile Sexuality" | |
| 1 | Psychoanalysis as General Psychology (1924) | 51 |
| 2 | The Therapeutic Application of Psychoanalysis (1924) | 66 |
| 3 | The Trauma of Birth and Its Importance for Psychoanalytic Therapy (1924) | 78 |
| 4 | Psychoanalysis as a Cultural Factor (1924) | 85 |
| Pt. 2 | Exploring the Dark Continent of Maternal Power: "The 'Bad Mother' Freud Has Never Seen" | |
| 5 | Foundations of a Genetic Psychology (1926) | 99 |
| 6 | Development of the Ego (1926) | 107 |
| 7 | The Problem of the Etiology of the Neurosis (1926) | 112 |
| 8 | The Anxiety Problem (1926) | 116 |
| 9 | The Genesis of the Guilt-Feeling (1926) | 131 |
| 10 | The Genesis of the Object Relation (1926) | 140 |
| Pt. 3 | From Projection and Identification to Self-Determination: "Emotions Are the Center and Real Sphere of Psychology" | |
| 11 | Love, Guilt, and the Denial of Feelings (1927) | 153 |
| 12 | Emotional Suffering and Therapy (1927) | 166 |
| 13 | The Significance of the Love Life (1927) | 177 |
| 14 | Social Adaptation and Creativity (1927) | 189 |
| 15 | The Prometheus Complex (1927) | 201 |
| 16 | Parental Attitudes and the Child's Reactions (1927) | 211 |
| Pt. 4 | Toward a Theory of Relationship and Relativity: "I Am No Longer Trying to Prove Freud was Wrong and I Right" | |
| 17 | Speech at First International Congress on Mental Hygiene (1930) | 221 |
| 18 | Beyond Psychoanalysis (1928) | 228 |
| 19 | The Yale Lecture (1929) | 240 |
| 20 | Neurosis as a Failure in Creativity (1935) | 251 |
| 21 | Active and Passive Therapy (1935) | 260 |
| 22 | Modern Psychology and Social Change (1938) | 264 |
| Prior Publication of Lectures | 277 |
| References | 279 |
| Index | 285 |
