Melanie Klein: The Basics

Hinshelwood is a British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who has always had a part-time commitment to the public service (NHS and Universities) and to teaching psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. His professional interests include the relationship between psychoanalysis and the arts and the understanding of severe emotional disturbance. About the AuthorRobert D. He is a guest-editor of Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication.. He has written on Kleinian psychoanalysis and on the application of psychoanalysis to social science and political themes. He has taken an interest in and published on the problems of making evidence comparisons between different schools of psychoanalysis.Tomasz Fortuna trained as a psychoanalyst at the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London. He has worked as a psychiatrist in the NHS for twelve years and currently works at the Portman Clinic, Newham Adolescent

The book contains four parts, as well as further reading suggestions and a helpful glossary of key terms. This book will greatly appeal to readers from any field seeking a clear and concise introduction to Melanie Klein. Each chapter poses a basic question at the outset, provides an account of how Klein faced this question and worked with it to develop her ideas, and ends by posing a follow up question to be addressed in the subsequent chapter. It will also interest researchers and professionals working within the field of psychoanalysis seeking a succinct overview of Melanie Klein’s contribution.. Part one introduces Melanie Klein in the context of her life, her early interest in psychoanalysis and her first discoveries; part two takes up the development of her technique of child analysis and discusses the ways in which her insights and conclusions in this area influenced the technique of adult analysis and more general understanding of the human mind; part three focuses on further scientific and clinical developments in psychoanalytic technique – especially those referring to the u

Robert D. He has written on Kleinian psychoanalysis and on the application of psychoanalysis to social science and political themes. He has worked as a psychiatrist in the NHS for twelve years and currently works at the Portman Clinic, Newham Adolescent Mental Health Team, and is in private psychoanalytic practice. He is a guest-editor of Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication.. He is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, Hanna Segal Institute