Description
Book SynopsisLectures on Technique by Melanie Klein is based on a series of six lectures given by Melanie Klein to students at the British Psychoanalytical Society in 1936 and repeated several times in subsequent years. They were discovered in the Melanie Klein Archives housed in the Wellcome Medical Library and have been previously described by Elizabeth Spillius but never before published. In this book, John Steiner explores what characterises Kleinian Technique, how her technique changed over the years, what she saw as the correct psychoanalytical attitude and how psychoanalytic technique has changed since Klein's death.
Melanie Klein, who moved to England from Berlin in 1927, became one of the leading psychoanalysts, following Freud and making an important contribution in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. A pioneer in child analysis, her work remains widely influential throughout the world. This book consists of the full text of the original six lectures
Trade Review
"Alive with clinical material, always illuminating and often surprising, this landmark collection of Melanie Klein’s previously unpublished technical writings provides a unique glimpse into the groundbreaking but always nuanced vision of a theorist whose ideas continue to shape today’s psychoanalytic conversations. Klein’s early lectures and a later series of seminars on technique show her grappling, creatively and compassionately, with the challenge of using her often startling insights to help suffering patients. The book is essential reading not only for those who are interested in the evolution of Klein’s thinking, but for anybody engaged in thinking about psychoanalytic theory and practice."-Jay Greenberg, Ph.D., Editor, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly.
Table of ContentsForeword by Michael Feldman
Part 1 Introduction, Outline and Critical Review of Klein’s Lectures and Seminars on Technique
Part 2 The Lectures on Technique, 1936
Introduction
Lecture 1: Guiding Principles
Lecture 2: Aspects of the Transference Situation
Lecture 3: Transference and Interpretation
Lecture 4: Clinical Illustration of Transference and Interpretation
Lecture 5: Experiences and Phantasy
Lecture 6: The Analysis of Grievances
Part 3 The Seminars on Technique, 1958
Appendix A List of Patients
Appendix B Lecture 5 Verbatim from the Archive
