New Directions in Psychoanalysis: The Significance of Infant Conflict in the Pattern of Adult Behaviour
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 1985
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 552
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 2516
- ISBN 13 : 9780946439133
- ISBN 10 : 0946439133
About the Editor(s)
Melanie Klein was an Austrian-born British psychoanalyst who devised novel therapeutic techniques for children that had an impact on child psychology and contemporary psychoanalysis. She was a leading innovator in theorizing object relations theory, and remains one of the most important figures in psychoanalytical theory and practice.
Roger Money-Kyrle (1898-1980) was an influential psychoanalyst particularly noted for his promotion and development of the ideas of Melanie Klein. He was analysed by Ernest Jones, by Freud and later by Klein. Initially his interest in psychoanalysis was stimulated in connection with his work in philosophy, anthropology, and the social sciences generally, but following his analysis with Klein he became a practising analyst and subsequently a training analyst. His papers reflect both his interest in the contributions that psychoanalytic thought could make to understanding social problems, in particular in matters of war and politics, and also his contributions to analytic theory and praxis.