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The Kleinian Development - Part II: Richard Week-by-Week: Melanie Klein's 'Narrative of a Child Analysis'

Author(s) : Donald Meltzer

Table of Contents

Foreword
Meg Harris Williams

Introduction and required reading

1. First week: sessions 1–6
Establishing the analytic situation; evolution of the concepts paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions

2. Second week: sessions 7–12
The developmental role of the thirst for knowledge

3. Third week: sessions 13–18
Envy and Gratitude as the organizing postscript to the body of Melanie Klein’s theoretical work 19

4. Fourth week: sessions 10–24
Unconscious phantasies as mechanisms of defence, with special reference to obsessional mechanisms

5. Fifth week: sessions 25–29
The anxieties of the paranoid-schizoid position: paranoid anxiety, persecutory anxiety, persecutory depression

6. Sixth week: sessions 30–33
The development of the concept of reparation: true, manic, and mock reparation

7. Seventh week: sessions 34–39
Concepts of confusion – their absence in the work with Richard and its consequence

8. Eighth week: sessions 40–45
The phenomenology of hypochondria: its differentiation from psychosomatic phenomena or somatic delusions

9. Ninth week: sessions 46–52
Splitting and idealization: its role in development and its defects’ contribution to psychopathology

10. Tenth week: sessions 53–59
The composition of intolerance to frustration – review of the ten weeks’ work

11. Eleventh week: sessions 60–65
The clinical manifestations of splitting processes and the structural meaning of integration, with
special relevance to the concept of ambivalence

12. Twelfth week: sessions 66–71
The role of interpretation in the therapeutic process

13. Thirteenth week: sessions 72–77
The relation of ambivalence to the experience of depressive pain

14. Fourteenth week: sessions 78–83
Technical problems related to countertransference

15. Fifteenth week: sessions 84–89
The concept of the combined object and its impact on development

16. Sixteenth week: sessions 90–93
The achievements of the analysis, with special reference to dependence on internal objects

Appendix: The paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions