Melanie Klein Today, Volume 1: Mainly Theory: Developments in Theory and Practice

by Spillius, Elizabeth Bott

• ISBN13: 9780203358832
• ISBN10: 020335883X
• Copyright: 2004-03-09
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

Melanie Klein Today, Volume 1 is the first of two volumes of collected essays devoted to developments in psychoanalysis based on the work of Melanie Klein.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Bott Spillius, General Introduction

The Analysis of Psychotic Patients

Introduction

Notes on the Psychoanalysis of the Superego Conflict of an Acute Schizophrenic Patient

Depression in the Schizophrenic

Differentiation of the Psychotic from the Non-psychotic Personalities

Projective Identification

Introduction

Attacks on Linking

The Relation of Anal Masturbation to Projective Identification

Contribution to the Psychopathology of Psychotic States: The Importance of Projective Identification in the Ego Structure and the Object Relations of the Psychotic Patient

Projective Identification - Some Clinical Aspects

On Thinking

Introduction

Notes on Symbol Formation

A Theory of Thinking

The Experience of the Skin in Early Object-relations

Pathological Organizations

Introduction

Schizoid Phenomena in the Borderline

Terror, Persecution, Dread - A Dissection of Paranoid Anxieties

A Clinical Approach to the Psychoanalyttic Theory of the Life and Death Instincts

An Investigation into the Aggressive Aspects of Narcissism

Cruelty and Narrowmindedness

Narcissistic Organization, Projective Identification, and the Formation of the Identificate

A Clinical Study of a Defensive Organization

Addiction to Near-death

The Interplay between Pathological Organizations and the Paranoid-schozoid and Depressive Positions

References to General Introduction and Other Introductory Material

Name Index

Subject Index

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