Product Description: Cassel Hospital, London, U.K. Historical and clinical examination of the psychoanalytic theories of Melanie Klein. Traces Klein's Freudian background and her influence on successors.
A study of the work of a post-Freudian theorist From front jacket:
"At once a fascinating history of the Kleinian clinical approach and a superb training text, 'Clinical Klein' is the first comprehensive exposition of Kleinin thought from a clinical and historical perspective.
'Clinical Klein' demonstrates how the concepts of Kleinian psychology emerged from the seminal case history of Melanie Klein and her followers. Through a close scrutiny of the cases, R.D. Hinshelwood follow the process of psychoanalytic thought itself. How are interpretations structured? What are the contents and processes of the mind as they are revealed in the patient's speech, and what is the specific sense a Kleinian makes of them?
The book follows a chronological path, beginning with the Freudian background to Kleinian theory. The first section examines how Klein's key terms emerge from the clinical material. The second section moves on to the developments associated with the work of Bion, Segal, Rosenfeld, Meltzer, Joseph and others.
Richly illustrated with vignettes from the published literature, 'Clinical Klein' is a unique, indispensable reference work in the burgeoning field of Klein studies."
Excellent condensation of an often misunderstood theory Hinshelwood provides the clinician with an important synopsis of Mrs. Klein's approach to the understanding of the patient's unconscious. His digestion and presentation of her theory of the development of the mind and symbol representation enables even the neophyte analyst a wonderful insight into the world of Klienian theory. Rather than assuming the reader is well-versed in the terms of Klienian theory, he provides a easy to read primer of her concepts of the development of the mind. In addition, one would profit from this tome if reading other challenging authors such as Bion who assumes his reader is conversant in Kleinian theory.
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