1st Edition

Melanie Klein Revisited Pioneer and Revolutionary in the Psychoanalysis of Young Children

By Susan Sherwin-White Copyright 2017
284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

While much writing has been devoted, predominantly by contemporary Kleinian adult psychoanalysts, to the Kleinian and post Kleinian development of Klein's work, comparatively little has recently been written about the ongoing importance and character of Klein's clinical work for contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapy or analysis with very small children (2 - 6 year olds). Little attention now... Read more
Series Editors’ Preface , Foreword , Introduction , Early background , Controversy and challenges in pioneering the analysis of very young children in the 1920s , Klein’s early pre-school and young child cases: the invention and development of a technique for child analysis , Restoring Klein’s concept of reparation in her early work , The negative transference and young children in analysis: new dimensions , The early stages of young-child analysis: Grete on the couch , Rita: the first very young child in psychoanalysis , Erna and her siblings: young-child analysis in the consulting room , Klein’s work with parents , Endings and outcomes , Incidence of Wiedergutmachung and Wiedergutmachungstendenzen in The Psycho-Analysis of Children (1932)

Biography

Susan Sherwin-White