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Melanie Klein Today, Volume 2: Mainly Practice Developments in Theory and Practice
Edited By Elizabeth Spillius
Copyright 1988
328 Pages
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Routledge
336 Pages
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Routledge
336 Pages
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Routledge
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Although both Kleinian psychoanalysts and their critics take it for granted that there is a therapeutic technique distinctive to the Kleinian approach, comparatively little has been written about what it is.
In Melanie Klein Today, Volume 2 , Elizabeth Bott Spillius brings together classic and new papers to make it possible to understand the main elements of the Kleinian therapeutic technique.... Read more
1 Some aspects of the analysis of a schizophrenic (1950) 2 The mirror: a perverse sexual phantasy in a woman seen as a defence against a psychotic breakdown (1970) 3 Words and working through (1983) Part Three: The analysis of children Introduction 1 Depression and the depressive position in an adolescent boy (1965) 2 Child analysis today (1962) 3 W.R.Bion’s theory of thinking and new techniques in child analysis (1981) 4 The invisible Oedipus complex (1988) 5 Communication and containing in child analysis: towards terminability (1988) Part Four: The application of Kleinian ideas in other fields of workIntroduction 1 Death and the mid-life crisis (1965) 2 Delusion and artistic creativity: some reflections on reading The Spire by William Golding (1974) 3 Psychoanalysis and ceremony (1968) 4 A psychoanalytic perspective on social institutions (1988)
Biography
Elizabeth Bott Spillius
"The credit for this volume goes to the excellent editorial work of Elizabeth Bott Spillius. The material is well organized in distinct sections. The papers in each section are introduced and critically discussed. The outcome is a volume of diverse papers by different authors which form a cogent whole. The papers will be of interest to Kleinian and non-Kleinian psychoanalysts alike." - Daniel Traub-Werner, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis
