Clinical Lectures on Klein and Bion

by Robin Anderson (Editor)

Clinical Lectures on Klein and Bion outlines the basic ideas in their thinking and shows in detail how these ideas can be used to tackle a clinical problem. The contributors correct some common misconceptions about Kleinian analysis, while demonstrating the continuity of their everyday work with seminal ideas of Klein and Bion. Originally given as a series of lectures intended to acquaint the general public with recent developments in psychoanalytic thinking and practice, the papers in this book cover the most fundamental ideas put forward by Klein and Bion; child analysis, Klein's use of the concepts of unconscious phantasy, projective identification, the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions, Bion's study of psychotic thinking, his ideas of the relation between container and contained, and the usefulness of the ideas of reversible perspective in understanding 'as if' personalities. In particular, this book provides an eminently readable and authoritative introduction to some of the most original and controversial concepts ever put forward in psychoanalysis.

Genres: Psychology

158 pages, Paperback

First published July 11, 1991

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Reviews

[sean · Rating 2 out of 5]

i typically hold that you should have a phd and probably also a lit degree to write about, teach, or perform psychoanalysis. this book did not change my mind.

[Daphne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lectures of very familiar current analysts on Klein and Bion. Easy to follow and interesting although I didn't feel I learned many new things about these 2 analysts that I wasn't at least a bit aware of. Great starting point though, especially on projective Identification.

[Sergey Kochergan · Rating 5 out of 5]

stimulation of pseudoadaptation
moralisation and temporal agreement

[Marina Andronova · Rating 5 out of 5]

Мне очень понравились все лекции. Они разнообразно, доходчиво и подробно поясняют основные идеи Кляйн и Биона; мне кажется, это очень полезная книга. И для работы, и в целях самопознания.