Klein Tradition

Penelope Garvey is a training analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Her first training was as a clinical psychologist and she has worked as a consultant psychotherapist in the NHS. Kay Long, PhD, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New Haven, CT. She is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Psychiatry Department of the Yale School of Medicine and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis.

"The ideas Melanie Klein developed on the basis of Freud’s work have now been taken up in many ways and in most centres of psychoanalysis throughout the world. As Klein often said she felt she had moved the psychoanalytic focus to ‘deeper layers’ of the unconscious. In these Chapters, the extraordinary ramifications of her explorations can be seen in greart detail. In some ways it re-treads the territory of Elizabeth Spillius’ two-volume work on Melanie Klein Today, in the 1980s; but, this new work brings us up to date with the sharp end of Kleinian thinking 30 years later. Klein’s own writing being dense and repetitive has always been difficult to master, and indeed sometimes disturbing. But this collection of original papers by a huge range of psychoanalysts demonstrates how rewarding the effort to understand these ideas has been. These Chapters do not just demonstrate the versatility of the ideas, but also comprise debates about issues not yet finalised, and for the next generation to venture into. If there is a public view that psychoanalysis has run its course in intellectual life, then this book gives the lie to that. Its Chapters confirm that Freud started the radical discovery of the human mind, but his results have nevertheless benefitted from others adventurously pushing on with his project." --R. D. Hinshelwood, Professor Emeritus of Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, and Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society

• AcknowledgementsAbout the Editors and ContributorsIntroduction to the BookI Historical FrameGarvey, P. and Long, K. Melanie Klein: her main ideas and some theoretical and clinical developmentsII Theory and PracticeAbel Hirsch, N. Some detail on Bion’s concept of container/contained Bell, D. The Development of the Psychoanalytic Idea of Psychosis Blass, R. The Teaching of Klein: Some Guidelines for Opening Students to the Heart of Kleinian Thinking and PracticeBrenman Pick, I. Lurching between longing and destructionBrearley, M. The sense of self: generosity or narrow mindedness? Britton, R. The mountains of primal griefCassorla, R. Dreams, Symbolization, Enactment Clarkson, L. Autistic Features Encountered in the World of "As If" Feldman, M. Responding to Narcissism Frank, C. Getting to know splitting as an organizing unconscious phantasy then and todayMawson, C. The projective process and the two positions today O’Shaughnessy, E. Reparation: Waiting for a conceptPaul, K. Mourning and the Development of Internal Objects Pieczanski, A. Some thoughts on addiction and perversion in psychoanalysis: theory and techniqueRocha Barros, E. Evolutions in Kleinian Inspired Clinical PracticeRoth, P. "I used to think you were wonderful": the persecution/idealization cycle of melancholiaSteiner, J. Illusion, Disillusion and Irony in Psychoanalysis Weiss, H. Primitive reparation and the repetition compulsion in the analysis of a borderline patient Zeavin, L. The perfect is the enemy of the good: On idealization and self-Idealization III. Work with ChildrenAlvarez, A. Paranoid/schizoid position or paranoid and schizoid positions?Jackson, J. Balancing on a Tightrope of Mania: a Precarious Normality Rustin, M. Psychoanalytic work with an adopted child with a history of early abuse and neglect Williams, G. "At times when I see your face thinking, I am thinking as well": A Plea for an Organising Object IV. Applied ContributionsRockwell, S A Perfect Poem of Tears: Grieving as Depicted in Federico Garcia Lorca’s Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias Rusbridger, R. Narcissism and ugliness in King LearTaffler, R. & Eshraghi, A. Hedge Funds as Phantastic Objects: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Financial InnovationsWeintrobe, S. Communicating psychoanalytic ideas about climate change: a case study