Psychoanalytic Work with Children and Adults

Donald Meltzer (1923-2004) is widely known as a psychoanalyst and teacher throughout Europe and South America. He is the author of many works on psychoanalytic theory and practice, including 'The Psychoanalytical Process', 'Sexual States of Mind', 'Explorations in Autism', 'The Kleinian Development', 'Dream Life', 'Studies in Extended Metapsychology', and 'The Claustrum', all published by Karnac Books.

'Working with Meltzer has represented for each and every one of us [the contributors] the most stimulating and fertile encounter of our entire psychoanalytic training - which is necessarily interminable, as Freud pointed out, referring to analysis itself. Not only are we referring to his knowledge, his amazing clinical penetration, his fidelity to the material and the psychoanalytic method, or his capacity to give colouring to the observations, but also to his personal qualities: human respect, generosity, scientific rigour, and last but not least, his capacity to convey enthusiasm and affection for the task of clinical investigation as well as his confidence in the vital capacities and growth of the patients.- From the Introduction

• Preface -- Introduction -- Casimiro: life in the rectum—flight towards delusion -- Victor: mental pain—anger and silence -- Jordi: from bi- to tridimensionality -- Yolanda: vicissitudes and failures of symbolism -- Herbert: a vocation for perversity -- Cecilia: the end of analysis -- David: sucked into projective identification -- Montse: delusional omnipotence -- Felipe: analytic work on the threshold of the depressive position -- Julio: unborn parts of the personality? -- Sylvia: the exciting servitude of jealousy -- Paula: the fascination of the esoteric world