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This book explores how Kleinian psychoanalysis has developed over the past 75 years and how it illuminates human experience and relationships inside and outside the consulting room.
List of contents
Foreword 1. Psychoanalysis before Klein 2. Melanie Klein's life and work 3. Paranoid-schizoid and depressive functioning 4. Separation and integration 5. Art and depressive functioning 6. Pathological organisations of the personality 7. The capacity to think 8. Oedipal struggles 9. Perverse use of projective identification 10. Transference and countertransference 11. Envy and the death instinct 12. Institutional and social dynamics 13. Sexuality 14. Difference 15. What is distinctive about Kleinian practice?
About the author
David Smart trained as a psychodynamic psychotherapist after a first career in Special Educational Needs. He has worked in NHS settings and as a school counsellor. He is now a psychotherapist in private practice.
Summary
This book explores how Kleinian psychoanalysis has developed over the past 75 years and how it illuminates human experience and relationships inside and outside the consulting room.
