1st Edition
The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic Transformative New Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory
By Susan Kavaler-Adler
Copyright 2014
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: Transformative New Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory brings together the theories of Melanie Klein and Donald W. Winnicott, two giants and geniuses of the British school of object relations clinical and developmental theory and psychoanalytic technique. In this book, The author attempts to integrate the theories of Klein and Winnicott, rather than... Read more
Foreword , Introduction: A developmental theory of psychological health based on the Klein–Winnicott dialectic and related object relations thinking , Melanie Klein, like Moses on the way to the Promised Land: a case of pathological mourning , Melanie Klein’s creative writing revealing themes in her life and theorising , The phenomenological theory stands on its own: death instinct as demon lover , Explicating and utilising the phenomenological theory , Developmental evolution within the theory of Melanie Klein , Developmental evolution within the works of Donald W. Winnicott: psychic and transitional space , Dynamics of transitional space: pathological foreclosure vs. expansion in clinical treatment , Winnicott’s contribution to the understanding of mirroring as a developmental process: the Klein–Winnicott dialectic within , Narcissistic mirroring as perversion of developmental mourning , Loneliness in dialectic with solitude , Conclusion
Biography
Susan Kavaler-Adler
