Introduction Jon Mills, Who Wants to be a Scientist? The Historical and Psychoanalytic Context at the Start of Klein’s Career: circa 1918-1921, R.D. Hinshelwood, Klein on Human Nature Michael Rustin, Destruction and Madness Michael Eigen, Projective Identification Robert Maxwell Young, Precious Illusions: Re-Constructing Realities Marilyn Charles, Klein’s Theory of the Positions Revisited James S. Grotstein, Hegel on Projective Identification: Implications for Klein, Bion, and Beyond Jon Mills, Childhood Play as Tragic Drama Walter A. Davis, Metaphor and the Relationality of Meaning Keith Haartman, Kleinian Theory is Natural Law Theory C. Fred Alford
Biography
Jon Mills is a psychologist, philosopher and psychoanalyst in private practice in Ajax, Ontario, Canada. He is Diplomate in Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychology with the American Board of Professional Psychology, Director of Curriculum Development, Adler School of Graduate Studies, and is President of the Section on Psychoanalysis of the Canadian Psychological Association. Professor Jon Mills is the recipient of the 2014 CPA Weininger Award for Lifetime Contributions to Psychoanalysis and/or Psychodynamic Psychology.
"… in Other Banalities, Jon Mills’s brilliant collection of essays, the Kleinian context is presented with scholarship, texture and diversity… I hopefully have provided a taste [referring to review] that will whet the intellectual appetite of the reader and result in a more fully detailed and personal reading of this impressive book." – Richard Raubolt, Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, APA Division 39 Newsletter, Winter 2009
