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. The papers are arranged into four groups: the analysis of psychotic patients, projective identification, on thinking, and pathalogical organisation.

Acknowledgements

vii

General introduction

1

(10)

Elizabeth Spillius

Part One: The analysis of psychotic patients

Introduction

11

(3)

Notes on the psychoanalysis of the superego conflict of an acute schizophrenic patient

14

(38)

Herbert Rosenfeld

Depression in the schizophrenic

52

(9)

Hanna Segal

Differentiation of the psychotic from the non-psychotic personalities

61

(26)

Wilfred Bion

Part Two: Projective identification

Introduction

81

(6)

Attacks on linking

87

(15)

Wilfred Bion

The relation of anal masturbation to projective identification

102

(15)

Donald Meltzer

Contribution to the psychopathology of psychotic states: the importance of projective identification in the ego structure and the object relations of the psychotic patient

117

(21)

Herbert Rosenfeld

Projective identification - some clinical aspects

138

(22)

Betty Joseph

Part Three: On thinking

Introduction

153

(7)

Notes on symbol formation

160

(18)

Hanna Segal

A theory of thinking

178

(9)

Wilfred Bion

The experience of the skin in early object-relations

187

(16)

Esther Bick

Part Four: Pathological organizations

Introduction

195

(8)

Schizoid phenomena in the borderline

203

(27)

J. Henri Rey

Terror, persecution, dread - a dissection of paranoid anxieties

230

(9)

Donald Meltzer

A clinical approach to the psychoanalytic theory of the life and death instincts: an investigation into the aggressive aspects of narcissism

239

(17)

Herbert Rosenfeld

Cruelty and narrowmindedness

256

(15)

Eric Brenman

Narcissistic organization, projective identification, and the formation of the identificate

271

(22)

Leslie Sohn

A clinical study of a defensive organization

293

(18)

Edna O'Shaughnessy

Addiction to near-death

311

(13)

Betty Joseph

The interplay between pathological organizations and the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions

324

(19)

John Steiner

References to general introduction and other introductory material

343

(8)

Name Index

351

(3)

Subject Index

354

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