Melanie Klein Revisited

Pioneer and Revolutionary in the Psychoanalysis of Young Children

Susan Sherwin-White (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

284 Seiten

2017
Karnac Books (Verlag)
978-1-78220-333-9 (ISBN)

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While much writing has been devoted, predominantly by contemporary Kleinian adult psychoanalysts, to the Kleinian and post Kleinian development of Klein's work, comparatively little has recently been written about the ongoing importance and character of Klein's clinical work for contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapy or analysis with very small children (2 - 6 year olds). Little attention now seems to be paid to the revolutionary character of her work from the start (in the early 1920s) with this age group and its challenges, still relevant today, or to her recognition of the importance of mother-infant relations in the period long before World War II brought investigation into and understanding of problems of attachment, separation and loss. This book addresses these issues and re-explores Klein's work in these (and other) areas. This book is concerned primarily with Klein's work with pre-latency children and aims to give these small children more of the voice today that Melanie Klein herself discovered. Among important new sources are the treatment notes published in Claudia Frank's seminal book Melanie Klein in Berlin (trans. 2009, Routledge), a rare exception to the current trend of publication for those interested in Klein's child work.This book is relevant to professionals working in a wide range of contexts from a range of professional bases, as well as child psychoanalytic psychotherapists and analysts. It will also be of interest to those concerned with the history and development of child psychoanalysis and especially those interested in Melanie Klein's work in the UK and abroad.

Susan Sherwin-White, who died in 2016, enjoyed two careers, the first as an academic ancient (Hellenistic) historian with many publications, including (with A. Kuhrt) 'From Samarkand to Sardis: A New Approach to the Seleucid Empire' (London: Duckworth, 1993). She then trained as a child and adolescent psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic from the mid-1980s. She was until her recent retirement from the NHS a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and Child Psychotherapy Lead at Hammersmith and Fulham CAMHS in the West London NHS Mental Health Trust. She was at various times Chair of the Association of Child Psychotherapists and its Chair of Ethics. She taught on Freud for many years at the Tavistock Clinic for the Observational Studies course. She published a number of clinical papers on child and adolescent issues. Most recently she co-edited with Debbie Hindle, 'Sibling Matters: A Psychoanalytic, Developmental and Systemic Approach' (Tavistock Clinic Series, Karnac, 2014) to which she contributed chapters on Freud and Klein.

Series Editors’ Preface , Foreword , Introduction , Early background , Controversy and challenges in pioneering the analysis of very young children in the 1920s , Klein’s early pre-school and young child cases: the invention and development of a technique for child analysis , Restoring Klein’s concept of reparation in her early work , The negative transference and young children in analysis: new dimensions , The early stages of young-child analysis: Grete on the couch , Rita: the first very young child in psychoanalysis , Erna and her siblings: young-child analysis in the consulting room , Klein’s work with parents , Endings and outcomes , Incidence of Wiedergutmachung and Wiedergutmachungstendenzen in The Psycho-Analysis of Children (1932)

Reihe/Serie	The Tavistock Clinic Series
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	147 x 230 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
ISBN-10	1-78220-333-8 / 1782203338
ISBN-13	978-1-78220-333-9 / 9781782203339
Zustand	Neuware