Melanie Klein was a pioneer in child psychoanalysis who developed several ground-breaking concepts about the nature and crucial importance of the early stages of infantile development. Although she was a devoted Freudian, many of her ideas were seen within the psycho-analytic movement as highly controversial. Introducing Melanie Klein brilliantly explains Klein's work, describing the startling discoveries that raised such opposition at the time. Now Klein's ideas are being recognized for their explanatory power, and her concepts of the depressive and paranoid-schizoid positions are in common usage.
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Robert Hinshelwood, MD, trained at University College Hospital Medical School and is a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Oscar Zarate is one of the UK's leading graphic artists. He has illustrated numerous Introducing series titles. His graphic novel A Small Killing won the Will Eisner Prize.
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Oscar Zarate is one of the UK's leading graphic artists. He has illustrated numerous Introducing series titles. His graphic novel A Small Killing won the Will Eisner Prize.
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Excellent Visual Summary Of Melanie Klein's Psychology,
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Dr. Hinshelwood, one of the world's leading proponents of Kleinian psychoanalysis, has produced an interesting and readable synopsis of the work of the noted psychoanalyst, Melanie Klein. Often difficult to understand, Mrs. Klein's work is centred on the intrapsychic aspects of human development. This slim volume allows the reader an opportunity to appreciate some of the more complex aspects of Kleinian thought.
Having digested Dr. Hinshelwood's excellent text entitled "Clinical Klein", I found the visual depictions in "Introducing Melanie Klein" of some of the same cases described in his other work to be helpful and clarifying. I would recommend any interested reader pick up both volumes and use the "Introducing..." book as a quick reference guide to the "Clinical..." text.
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a "Peter Rabbit" version of Melanie Klein,
This review is from: Introducing Melanie Klein (Paperback)
The other reviews didn't say this, but this book employs almost a comic book approach to Melanie Klein's life and ideas. Every page has incredible graphics with captions by the people in the book describing their views. I read it in two sittings, and feel I now know something about object relations and child psychiatry that I hadn't known. There is a whole series of "introducing" books that I plan to investigate.
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Born on 30 March 1882 in Vienna, Melanie felt unwanted as the youngest of the four children of Dr Moriz Reizes and Libussa Deutsch. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Melanie Klein, Anna Freud, Karl Abraham, British Psycho-Analytical Society, Donald Winnicott, First World War, Herbert Rosenfeld, Little Hans New!
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Born on 30 March 1882 in Vienna, Melanie felt unwanted as the youngest of the four children of Dr Moriz Reizes and Libussa Deutsch. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Melanie Klein, Anna Freud, Karl Abraham, British Psycho-Analytical Society, Donald Winnicott, First World War, Herbert Rosenfeld, Little Hans New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Melanie Klein (Modern masters) by Hanna Segal on page 120, page 140, and Back Matter
- Melanie Klein (Key Figures in Counselling and Psychotherapy series) by Julia Segal on page 120, page 140, and Back Matter
- The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud on page 15, and page 96
- Clinical Klein: From Theory to Practice by R. D. Hinshelwood in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Envy and Gratitude (1946 - 1963) by Melanie Klein on page 158
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- Healing Identities: Black Feminist Thought and the Politics of Groups (Psychoanalysis and Social Theory) by Cynthia Burack in Back Matter
- Introducing Kierkegaard by Dave Robinson in Back Matter
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