{"product_id":"encounters-with-melanie-klein-9780415419987","title":"Encounters with Melanie Klein","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eEncounters with Melanie Klein: Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius\u003c\/em\u003e the author argues that her two professions, anthropology and psychoanalysis, have much in common, and explains how her background in anthropology led her on to a profound involvement in psychoanalysis and her establishment as a leading figure amongst Kleinian analysts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpillius describes what she regards as the important features of Kleinian thought and discusses the research she has carried out in Melanie Klein''s unpublished archive, including Klein''s views on projective identification.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpillius''s own clinical ideas make up the last part of the book with papers on envy, phantasy, technique, the negative therapeutic reaction and otherness. Her writing has a clarity which is very particular to her; she conveys complicated ideas in a most straightforward manner, well illustrated with pertinent clinical material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book represents fifty years of the developing thought and scholarshi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"This is a fine book, both as a refreshing and illuminating account of Melanie Klein’s thinking, and as an expression of Elizabeth Spillius’s own attitudes to and work in psychoanalysis\" – \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Brearley, \u003cem\u003eInternational Journal of Psychoanalysis,\u003c\/em\u003e (2008) 89\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"This fascinating, absorbing book is as much about how Elizabeth Spillius integrates her original discipline of anthropology into her thinking and practice as an analyst as it is about the theoretical contribution of Melanie Klein... I would recommend this book to any reader interested in the original works of Melanie Klein and the development of her theory, which would seem to confirm the richness of her original model.\" - \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKaren Stobart,\u003cem\u003e Journal of Analytical Psychology,\u003c\/em\u003e 53, 2008\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"This is a fine book, both as a refreshing and illuminating account of Melanie Klein’s thinking, and as an expression of Elizabeth Spillius’s own attitudes to and work in psychoanalysis\" –\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Brearley, \u003cem\u003eInternational Journal of Psychoanalysis,\u003c\/em\u003e (2008) 89\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"This fascinating, absorbing book is as much about how Elizabeth Spillius integrates her original discipline of anthropology into her thinking and practice as an analyst as it is about the theoretical contribution of Melanie Klein... I would recommend this book to any reader interested in the original works of Melanie Klein and the development of her theory, which would seem to confirm the richness of her original model.\" - \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKaren Stobart, \u003cem\u003eJournal of Analytical Psychology\u003c\/em\u003e, 53, 2008\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoth, Rusbridger,\u003c\/em\u003e Preface. \u003cem\u003eSpillius\u003c\/em\u003e, General Introduction. \u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: From Anthropology to Psychoanalysis.\u003c\/strong\u003e Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: A Personal Concordance. Kleinian Thought: Overview and Personal View. \u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: In Melanie Klein’s Archive.\u003c\/strong\u003e Introduction: The Archive. Melanie Klein Revisited: Her Unpublished Thoughts on Technique. Melanie Klein on the Past. Projective Identification: Back to the Future. \u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: Interaction of Ideas and Clinical Work.\u003c\/strong\u003e Clinical Reflections on the Negative Therapeutic Reaction. Varieties of Envious Experience. Freud and Klein on the Concept of Phantasy. Developments in Kleinian Technique. Recognition of Separateness and Otherness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402116014423,"sku":"9780415419987","price":117.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/encounters-with-melanie-klein-9780415419987","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}