Melanie Klein Today, Volume 2: Mainly Practice: Developments in Theory and Practice

by Spillius; Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780415010450
• ISBN10: 0415010454
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1989-01-11
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

InMelanie Klein Today, Volume 2, Elizabeth Bott Spillius brings together classic and new papers on the understanding of Kleinian therapeutic techniques. In recent years there have been important refinements in this technique, notably in regard to the balance to be struck in interpreting destructiveness, the use of the so-called part-object language, and the precise ways to understand and interpret 'acting-in' and the role of the past in the present. This collection draws these developments together and makes clear why an integral part of contemporary Kleinian theory and practice is concerned with the carefuerapeutic process itself. The volume includes further detailed accounts of clinical work with both adults and children and takes further the theoretical ideas discussed inMelanie Klein Today, Volume 1. The papers and the editorial commentary in this book together comprise the most illuminating and coherent rationale for the Kleinian technique yet published. This title availablein eBook format. Click here for more information . Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk .

Table of Contents

The New Library of Psychoanalysis	p. a4
Acknowledgements	p. vii
General Introduction	p. 1
	p. 3
Introduction	p. 5
Notes on Memory and Desire	p. 17
Normal Counter-Transference and Some of Its Deviations	p. 22
References	p. 33
Working Through in the Counter-Transference	p. 34
The Patient Who is Difficult to Reach	p. 48
Transference: the Total Situation	p. 61
Interpretation: the Past in the Present	p. 73
	p. 91
Introduction	p. 93
Some Aspects of the Analysis of a Schizophrenic	p. 96
The Mirror: a Perverse Sexual Phantasy in a Woman Seen as a Defence Against a Psychotic Breakdown	p. 115
Words and Working Through	p. 138
	p. 153
Introduction	p. 155
Depression and the Depressive Position in an Adolescent Boy	p. 158
Child Analysis Today	p. 168
References	p. 176
W. R. Bion's Theory of Thinking and New Techniques in Child Analysis	p. 177
References	p. 189
The Invisible Oedipus Complex	p. 191
Reference	p. 205
Communication and Containing in Child Analysis: Towards Terminability	p. 206
	p. 219
Introduction	p. 221
Death and the Mid-Life Crisis	p. 226
Delusion and Artistic Creativity: Some Reflections on Reading the Spire by William Golding	p. 249
References	p. 258
Psychoanalysis and Ceremony	p. 259
A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Social Institutions	p. 284
References to General Introduction and Other Introductory Material	p. 300
Name Index	p. 307
Subject Index	p. 310
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