1st Edition

Journeys in Psychoanalysis The selected works of Elizabeth Spillius

By Elizabeth Bott Spillius Copyright 2015
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Spanning six decades, this collection, Journeys in Psychoanalysis: The selected works of Elizabeth Spillius, traces the arc of her career from anthropology and entering psychoanalysis ‘almost by accident’, to becoming one of her generation’s leading scholars of Melanie Klein. Born in 1924 in Ontario, Canada, Elizabeth arrived at the London School of Economics for postgraduate studies in the... Read more

Introduction; Asylum and Society; Clinical experiences of projective identification; On formulating clinical fact to a patient; Developments in Kleinian thought; Totem and Taboo and professional correctness; Conflict of goals in psychoanalysis; Understanding oneself and being understood; Melitta and her mother; Ten drawings by one of Melanie Klein’s child patients; Melanie Klein Today.

Biography

Elizabeth Spillius is a training analyst and Distinguished Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society.

‘These papers of Elizabeth Spillius’s are typical of her in that they are both absolutely clear and clinically imaginative and sensitive.  She trained originally as an anthropologist, and she brings the same curiosity, warmth and intelligence to her work with patients and psychoanalytic institutions that she brought to Tongan society and to families in London’s East End.’  - Richard Rusbridger, Training Analyst, British Psychoanalytical Society