Clinical Lectures on Klein and Bion outlines the basic ideas in their thinking and shows in detail how these ideas can be used to tackle a clinical problem. The contributors correct some common misconceptions about Kleinian analysis, while demonstrating the continuity of their everyday work with seminal ideas of Klein and Bion. In particular, this book provides an eminently readable and authoritative introduction to some of the most original and controversial concepts ever put forward in psychoanalysis.
Key Features
- Explores fundamental ideas of Klein and Bion, including child analysis and unconscious phantasy.
- Addresses projective identification and the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions.
- Examines Bion's study of psychotic thinking and the relation between container and contained.
- Utilises the concept of reversible perspective in understanding 'as if' personalities.
Additional Information
Originally given as a series of lectures intended to acquaint the general public with recent developments in psychoanalytic thinking and practice, the papers in this book cover the most fundamental ideas put forward by Klein and Bion.
