Melanie Klein

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.

'It is the depth and clarity of this account of the work of Melanie Klein that will impress professional analysts, psychotherapists, as well as the curious general reader. They will find readily accessible descriptions and explanations of many of the basic concepts of psychoanalysis - internal objects, splitting, projective identification, introjection, and pathological organisations, and learn how important processes such as mourning lead to changes in the super-ego which enable arrested development to resume.Even experienced psychoanalyst will be impressed to find old concepts presented in new ways, often amply illustrated with clinical material, sometimes from Klein and sometimes from Garvey’s own work.This book is a major contribution to the definition of Klein’s place among the pioneers of psychoanalysis.'John Steiner, Training analyst British Psychoanalytical Society, author of Psychic Retreats, Seeing and Being Seen, Illusion, Disillusion and Irony in Psychoanalysis

• 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