Melanie Klein: The Basics
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2017
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 184
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Category 2 :
Child and Adolescent Studies - Catalogue No : 93204
- ISBN 13 : 9781138667051
- ISBN 10 : 1138667056
About the Author(s)
R.D. Hinshelwood is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He had a long interest in alternative psychiatry and worked as a part-time Consultant Psychotherapist in the National Health Service whilst also running a private practice as a psychoanalyst for more than forty years. Subsequently he became professor in the Centre For Psychoanalytic Studies at Essex University (now the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies), and is now Professor Emeritus. He has written widely on psychoanalysis and psychoanalysts, as well as comparative psychoanalytic research, the psychodynamics of institutions, and a number of political topics (that make up the contents of this current volume).
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Dr Tomasz Fortuna is a psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society and a founding member of the Hanna Segal Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies. He worked as a psychiatrist in the NHS for sixteen years and is now at the Portman Clinic and in private psychoanalytic practice. He teaches and supervises at the Tavistock and Portman Clinics, Institute of Psychoanalysis, University College London, and abroad, and was a visiting professor in psychoanalysis at the psychiatry department of University Putra Malaysia. He was a member of the Bion in Marrakech seminar and taught Klein and Bion in the UK, China, and South Korean. His professional interests include the relationship between psychoanalysis and the arts, and the understanding of severe emotional disturbance and criminal behaviour. He has published several articles and chapters, co-authored with R. D. Hinshelwood, Melanie Klein: The Basics (Routledge, 2017) and co-edited with Ignês Sodré, Mapping the Landscape: Explorations in Psychoanalysis, by Priscilla Roth (Routledge, 2025).