Angela Molnos describes her own concept of destructive idealization in which splitting conceals its ultimate destructiveness, which she found so clearly in her studies with staff working with AIDS sufferers. She presented this book on the basis of her talks in 1993 and 1994.Foreword -- Introduction -- Time in our times and time in psychotherapy -- Brief dynamic psychotherapy -- Destructive anger, healing anger, and the impulse to separate -- Final, intermediate, and immediate aims of brief and other analytic psychotherapies