1st Edition

Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and the Psychoanalysis of Children and Adolescents

By Alex Holder Copyright 2005
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

The central theme of this book is concerned with the controversies on technique between Anna Freud and Melanie Klein in the 1920s and 1930s, and with a clear differentiation between child analysis proper and analytical child psychotherapy. Alex Holder takes into account the historic background in which child psychoanalysis developed, especially World War II and the Nazi regime in Germany. The... Read more
Foreword , Preface , Introduction , The origins of child analysis , The technique of child analysis , Adolescence , The significance of child analysis for adult analysis , Conclusion

Biography

Alex Holder