Melanie Klein Revisited

Pioneer and Revolutionary in the Psychoanalysis of Young Children

Susan Sherwin-White

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9780429916175
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

While much writing has been devoted, predominantly by contemporary Kleinian adult psychoanalysts, to the Kleinian and post Kleinian development of Klein's work, comparatively little has recently been written about the ongoing importance and character of Klein's clinical work for contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapy or analysis with very small children (2 - 6 year olds). Little attention now seems to be paid to the revolutionary character of her work from the start (in the early 1920s) with this age group and its challenges, still relevant today, or to her recognition of the importance of mother-infant relations in the period long before World War II brought investigation into and understanding of problems of attachment, separation and loss. This book addresses these issues and re-explores Klein's work in these (and other) areas. This book is concerned primarily with Klein's work with pre-latency children and aims to give these small children more of the voice today that Melanie Klein herself discovered.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• SERIES EDITORS’ PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• FOREWORD
• Introduction
• 1 Early background
• 2 Controversy and challenges in pioneering the analysis of very young children in the 1920s
• 3 Klein’s early pre-school and young child cases: the invention and development of a technique for child analysis
• 4 Restoring Klein’s concept of reparation in her early work
• 5 The negative transference and young children in analysis: new dimensions
• 6 The early stages of young-child analysis: Grete on the couch
• 7 Rita: the first very young child in psychoanalysis
• 8 Erna and her siblings: young-child analysis in the consulting room
• 9 Klein’s work with parents
• 10 Endings and outcomes
• APPENDIX
• REFERENCES
• INDEX