Melanie Klein

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.

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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.

Inhalt

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