Symbol Formation in Psychoanalysis - Clinical and Observational Work With Children and Adults

Informationen zum Autor Marisa Pelella Melega is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst in private practice and a Training Analyst and Supervisor at the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of Sao Paulo. She founded the Sao Paulo Mother-Baby Relationship Study Centre in 1987, receiving accreditation from the Centro Studi Martha Harris, in Rome. She teaches at the Brazilian Institute as a child psychoanalyst, 1996. Her clinical and research interests include applications of the Esther Bick observation model, as in assessment and therapeutic interventions with parents and children. Klappentext The importance of symbol formation as a primary goal in psychoanalysis, and an indicator of developmental progress, is based on the post-Kleinian conviction that, since Bion's theory of thinking and Meltzer's elucidation of the role of 'dream life', focuses on the desire for knowledge as the resolution of emotional conflict.

Product details

• Authors: Marisa Pelella Melega
• Publisher: Karnac Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.02.2023
• EAN: 9781914901126
• ISBN: 978-1-914901-12-6
• No. of pages: 174
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works