Klein Melanie - Reading Klein

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Reading Klein

Reading Klein provides an introduction to the work of one of the twentieth centurys greatest psychoanalysts, known in particular for her contribution in developing child analysis and for her vivid depiction of the inner world. This book makes Melanie Kleins works highly accessible, providing both substantial extracts from her writings, and commentaries by the authors exploring their significance.

Each chapter corresponds to a major field of Kleins work, outlining its development over almost 40 years. The first part is concerned with her theoretical and clinical contributions. It shows Klein to be a sensitive clinician deeply concerned for her patients, and with a remarkable capacity to understand their unconscious anxieties and to revise our understanding of the mind. The second part sets out the contribution of her ideas to morality, to aesthetics and to the understanding of society, introducing writing by her associates as well as herself.

The book provides a lucid account of Kleins published writing, presented by two distinguished writers who know her work well and have made creative use of it in their own clinical and extra-clinical writing. Its aim is to show how substantial her contribution to psychoanalytic thinking and clinical practice was, and how indispensable it remains to understanding the field of psychoanalysis.

Reading Klein will be a highly valuable resource for students, trainees in psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic practitioners and all who are interested in Melanie Klein and her legacy.

Margaret Rustin is a child, adolescent and adult psychotherapist and a child analyst at the British Psychoanalytical Society. She trained at the Tavistock Clinic in London and worked there from 1968 to 2009, becoming Head of Child Psychotherapy and Dean of Postgraduate Studies. Since retiring she continues to teach and maintains a private practice.

Michael Rustin is Professor of Sociology at the University of East London, and a Visiting Professor at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Essex. He is an associate of the British Psychoanalytical Society and, like Margaret Rustin, is the author and editor of many books and articles.

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THE NEW LIBRARY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS TEACHING SERIES

General Editor: Alessandra Lemma

The New Library of Psychoanalysis was launched in 1987 in association with the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London. It took over from the International Psychoanalytical Library which published many of the early translations of the works of Freud and the writings of most of the leading British and Continental psychoanalysts. The purpose of the New Library of Psychoanalysis is to facilitate a greater and more widespread appreciation of psychoanalysis and to provide a forum for increasing mutual understanding between psychoanalysts and those working in other disciplines such as the social sciences, medicine, philosophy, history, linguistics, literature and the arts. It aims to represent different trends both in British psychoanalysis and in psychoanalysis generally. The New Library of Psychoanalysis is well placed to make available to the English-speaking world psychoanalytic writings from other European countries and to increase the interchange of ideas between British and American psychoanalysts.

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TITLES IN THE NEW LIBRARY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS TEACHING SERIES

Reading Freud: A Chronological Exploration of Freuds Writings Jean-Michel Quinodoz

Listening to Hanna Segal: Her Contribution to Psychoanalysis Jean-Michel Quinodoz

Reading French Psychoanalysis Edited by Dana Birksted-Breen, Sara Flanders and Alain Gibeault

Reading Winnicott Lesley Caldwell and Angela Joyce

Initiating Psychoanalysis: Perspectives Bernard Reith, Sven Lagerlf, Penelope Crick, Mette Mller and Elisabeth Skale

Infant Observation Frances Salo

Reading Anna Freud Nick Midgley

Reading Italian Psychoanalysis Edited by Franco Borgogno, Alberto Luchetti and Luisa Marino Coe

Reading Klein Margaret Rustin and Michael Rustin

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Reading Klein

Margaret Rustin and Michael Rustin

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Names: Rustin, Margaret, author. | Rustin, Michael, author.

Title: Reading Klein / Margaret Rustin and Michael Rustin.

Description: New York : Routledge, 2017. | Series: New library of psychoanalysis Teaching series ; 9 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016027220| ISBN 9780415452939 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780415452946 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315544618 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Psychoanalysis. | Child analysis. | Child psychologyResearchMethodology. | Klein, Melanie.

Classification: LCC BF173 .R887 2016 | DDC 150.19/5092dc23

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We are most grateful to the Trustees of the Melanie Klein Trust for asking us to prepare this book, supporting us in doing so, and bearing with patience the time it has taken to complete. Particular and generous help has also been given by Lisa Miller in reading the whole book, by Sue Sherwin-White in allowing us to make use of her unpublished work on the details of Melanie Kleins life, by Kate Stratton, whose editorial and bibliographical expertise has been invaluable, and by Kate Paul, Suchen Hung and Hsui Nien Wei for help with individual chapters. The whole project has depended on our long-shared involvement in psychoanalysis and in thinking about Klein, one of us as a clinician and one as an academic. We owe a great deal to our analysts and to the psychoanalytic community within which we have been nourished for over 50 years.