1st Edition
Lectures on Technique by Melanie Klein Edited with Critical Review by John Steiner
Preface by Michael Feldman
Part 1: Introduction, Outline, and Critical Review of Klein’s Lectures and Seminars on Technique
Part 2: The Lectures on Technique, 1936
Introduction
Lecture 1: Guiding Principles
Lecture 2: Aspects of the Transference Situation.
Lecture 3: Transference and Interpretation
Lecture 4: Clinical Illustration of Transference and Interpretation.
Lecture 5: Experiences and Phantasy
Lecture 6: The Analysis of Grievances.
Part 3: The Seminars on Technique, 1958
Appendix
A: List of Patients
B: Lecture 5 verbatim from the Archive
Biography
John Steiner is a training analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society who is retired from his analytic practice but continues to supervise candidates, to conduct seminars and to write. He is the author of several psychoanalytic papers and two books: Psychic Retreats (1993) and Seeing and Being Seen (2011), both by Routledge. He has also edited and written introductions to The Oedipus Complex Today (1989), to Hanna Segal’s Psychoanalysis, Literature and War (1997) and to Rosenfeld in Retrospect (2008).
"Alive with clinical material, always illuminating and often surprising, this landmark collection of Melanie Klein’s previously unpublished technical writings provides a unique glimpse into the groundbreaking but always nuanced vision of a theorist whose ideas continue to shape today’s psychoanalytic conversations. Klein’s early lectures and a later series of seminars on technique show her grappling, creatively and compassionately, with the challenge of using her often startling insights to help suffering patients. The book is essential reading not only for those who are interested in the evolution of Klein’s thinking, but for anybody engaged in thinking about psychoanalytic theory and practice."-Jay Greenberg, Ph.D., Editor, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly.
