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Lectures on Technique by Melanie Klein: Edited with Critical Review by John Steiner

by Melanie Klein , John Steiner
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781138940093
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 138
  • Original Price: GBP 210.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 352 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis

Lectures on Technique by Melanie Klein is based on a series of six lectures given by Melanie Klein to students at the British Psychoanalytical Society in 1936 and repeated several times in subsequent years. They were discovered in the Melanie Klein Archives housed in the Wellcome Medical Library and have been previously described by Elizabeth Spillius but never before published. In this book, John Steiner explores what characterises Kleinian Technique, how her technique changed over the years, what she saw as the correct psychoanalytical attitude and how psychoanalytic technique has changed since Klein's death.

Melanie Klein, who moved to England from Berlin in 1927, became one of the leading psychoanalysts, following Freud and making an important contribution in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. A pioneer in child analysis, her work remains widely influential throughout the world. This book consists of the full text of the original six lectures, accompanied by a critical analysis from John Steiner who is known internationally as a leading Kleinian analyst and writer. Steiner demonstrates the importance of the lectures in understanding Klein's work and their continued relevance for contemporary psychoanalysis. In addition, also published for the first time, this book includes annotated transcripts of a preserved recording of a seminar Klein held in 1958 with young analysts of the British Psychoanalytical Society. In this seminar, close to the end of her life, many of the points made in the earlier lectures were elaborated upon and brought further up to date in light of developments in Klein's thinking during the intervening years.

Featuring rare, previously unpublished material, Lectures on Technique by Melanie Klein provides a new and significant contribution to understanding of the Kleinian paradigm. It will be essential reading for all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists interested in and influenced by Klein's work and legacy.

John Steiner is a training analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society who is retired from his analytic practice but continues to supervise candidates, to conduct seminars and to write. He is the author of several psychoanalytic papers and two books: Psychic Retreats (1993) and Seeing and Being Seen (2011), both by Routledge. He has also edited and written introductions to The Oedipus Complex Today (1989), to Hanna Segal's Psychoanalysis, Literature and War (1997) and to Rosenfeld in Retrospect (2008).

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