Melanie Klein Revisited: Pioneer and Revolutionary in the Psychoanalysis of Very Young and Young Children (The Tavistock Clinic Series)

Among important new sources are the treatment notes published in Claudia Frank's seminal book Melanie Klein in Berlin (trans. While much writing has been devoted, predominantly by contemporary Kleinian adult psychoanalysts, to the Kleinian and post Kleinian development of Klein's work, comparatively little has recently been written about the ongoing importance and character of Klein's clinical work for contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapy or analysis with very small children (2 - 6 year olds). 2009, Routledge), a rare exception to the current trend of publication for those interested in Klein's child work.This book is relevant to professionals working in a wide range of contexts from a range of professional bases, as well as child psychoanalytic psychotherapists and analysts. Little attention now seems to be paid to the revolutionary character of her work from the start (in the early 1920s) with this age group and its challenges, still relevant today, or to her recognition of the importance of mother-infant relations in the period long before World War II brought investigation into and understanding of problems of attachment, separation and loss. It

Here Susan Sherwin-White deploys her scholarly capacity on behalf of child analysts and child psychotherapists, as well as all those with an interest in psychoanalytic thinking. This book helps us realise afresh the courage of Klein’s deductions and the fact that she looked at the baby and the small child as no-one had ever done before. It is also possible for Sherwin-White to bring a modern and revealing clinical perspective to Klein’s cases. Klein’s recognition of the vital importance of the mother–infant relationship long predated mid–twentieth–century discoveries about attachment and loss, and her analyses of small children led to fundamental discoveries about the inner world which still inform contemporary psychoanalytic work. Light from these orig

She was until her recent retirement from the NHS a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and Child Psychotherapy Lead at Hammersmith and Fulham CAMHS in the West London NHS Mental Health Trust. . She taught on Freud for many years at the Tavistock Clinic for the Observational Studies course. She then trained as a child and adolescent psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic from the mid-1980s. Most recent