Introduction to the Work of Melanie Klein

Synopsis:

A most lucid and comprehensive introduction to Kleinian theories from one of the leading contemporary Kleinian analysts, including new chapters on her early work and on technique. Also includes a complete chronological list of Klein's publications.

Description:

This is a reprint of a revised and enlarged edition of the most lucid and comprehensive study of Melanie Klein's writings. Dr Segal has added important new chapters on Melanie Klein's early work and on technique, as well as a complete chronological list of her publications.

Notes about the author(s):

Hanna Segal was born in Poland in August 1918 and studied medicine in Warsaw and Paris before qualifying at the Polish Medical School in Edinburgh in 1943. She became a psychoanalyst four years later, having trained under Melanie Klein, with Paul Heimann and Joan Riviere as her first supervisors. Dr Segal then qualified in child analysis and afterwards became a training analyst in the British Psychoanalytical Society in 1951-52. Since then she has served as President of the British Society and Vice -President of the International Psychoanalytical Association. She is a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatry, and has also been Visiting Professor of the Freud Memorial Chair, University College, London. Her other publications include Klein (1979), The Work of Hanna Segal (1981), and Dream, Phantasy and Art (1990).