Journeys in Psychoanalysis

Journeys in Psychoanalysis: The selected works of Elizabeth Spillius traces the arc of her career from anthropology and entering psychoanalysis 'almost by accident', to becoming one of her generation's leading scholars of Melanie Klein.

List of contents

Introduction; Asylum and Society; Clinical experiences of projective identification; On formulating clinical fact to a patient; Developments in Kleinian thought; Totem and Taboo and professional correctness; Conflict of goals in psychoanalysis; Understanding oneself and being understood; Melitta and her mother; Ten drawings by one of Melanie Klein’s child patients; Melanie Klein Today.

About the author

Elizabeth Spillius is a training analyst and Distinguished Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society.

Summary

Journeys in Psychoanalysis: The selected works of Elizabeth Spillius traces the arc of her career from anthropology and entering psychoanalysis ‘almost by accident’, to becoming one of her generation’s leading scholars of Melanie Klein.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Spillius, Elizabeth (British Psychoanalytical Society Spillius, Spillius Elizabeth
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.02.2015
• EAN: 9780415835176
• ISBN: 978-0-415-83517-6
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 241 mm x 15 mm
• Series: World Library of Mental Health; World Library of Mental Health
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis