In this book, the case histories of Melanie Klein and her followers are scrutinised, to examine both what the clinicians were noticing in their patients, and how they conceptualized those processes.
INTRODUCING guide to the pioneering child psychoanalyst
This book contains 13 main entries on the basic Kleinian concepts - splitting, paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions, projective identification, envy, internal... Læs mere
Working with disturbed and disturbing individuals in secure settings produces strong feelings, and working with those... Læs mere
This book explores the effects of the psychotic patient's suffering on carers and the culture of psychiatric services, and makes a powerful argument for considering care in the psychiatric services as a whole system.
Underpinned by rigorous close readings of his oeuvre, this book provides a comprehensive guide to the development, practice and evolution of Wilfred Bion’s clinical psychoanalytic work.
This book discusses the most influential psychoanalytic papers produced from the 1940 since the International Journal of Psychoanalysis began. It provides an overview of the development of psychoanalysis, as articulated through its principal scholarly journal.
This book deals with problems related to the analysis and treatment of borderline and psychosomatic patients. It demonstrates how psychoanalytic practice has had to accomodate the range of "borderline syndromes" and produce new models of theory and treatment.
This book focuses on the professional ethics of medicine and psychiatry, to know whether psychoanalysis differs from brainwashing. It... Læs mere
We are rooted in the experience of our feelings. We feel ourselves as persons. Such affects are not communicated but exchanged with others.... Læs mere
R. D. Hinshelwood brings together social science and psychoanalysis. His creation of a psychosocial model to develop new insights into... Læs mere
Too little is ever thought about the unconscious dimension of the mind when considering political and... Læs mere