Melanie Klein - A Contemporary Introduction

This important book provides a concise introduction to Melanie Klein and the key concepts and theories she founded, outlining their application to psychoanalytic technique, and explaining how her ideas have been further developed.

List of contents

Introduction 1 Biography 2 Early Ideas and Early Work with Children 3 Mainly the Paranoid-Schizoid Position 4 Mainly the Depressive Position 5 Internal Objects, the Superego and Its Destructive Potential 6 Technique, Projective and Introjective Identification and Countertransference

About the author

Penelope Garvey is a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She worked with both children and adults in the NHS as a clinical psychologist before going on to qualify as a psychoanalyst. She works in private practice in Devon and teaches in the UK and abroad. She is one of the co-authors of the New Dictionary of Kleinian Thought (2011), co-edited with Kay Long The Klein Tradition (2018) and has recorded a short e-learning course, ‘Introduction to Melanie Klein’, which can be found on the website of the Institute of Psychoanalysis.

Summary

This important book provides a concise introduction to Melanie Klein and the key concepts and theories she founded, outlining their application to psychoanalytic technique, and explaining how her ideas have been further developed.

Product details

• Authors: Penelope Garvey, Penelope (British Psychoanalytical Society Garvey, Penelope (Psychoanalyst Garvey, Garvey Penelope
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9781032105260
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3210526-0
• No. of pages: 112
• Series: Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis