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Title: Melanie Klein

Other Available Formats:
Book, 1980
Paperback, 1981
Paperback, 1992
Hardcover, 2004
Paperback, 2004

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Series:             Key Figures in Counselling and Psychotherapy Series


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Weight:        0.7 Pounds
Height:         9 Inches
Width:          5.8 Inches
Thickness:    0.8 Inches



Publisher Notes
Melanie Klein devoted her life to the study and treatment of children. She saw babies as capable of powerful emotions of love and hatred from the very beginning, and traced some of the links between the relationships of earliest infancy and adult ways of relating to others through eating, sexuality and speech. Her insights have influenced child-care practices and teaching for the last sixty years and her work, also influential in feminist theory, has led to a better understanding of psychotic processes and the part they play in "normal" behavior. Segal takes up the often controversial implications of Klein's work for counselors and psychotherapists today and traces her influence on therapists the world over. "The book is very intimate; the first chapter on her personal and professional life is extremely candid and enlightening. Though Klein later advised against doing this, she analyzed her own children. Her disagreements with Anna Freud are highlighted. Succeeding chapters on her major theoretical and practical contributions, and on the criticisms of her ideas and the rebuttals made by her and others, are interesting. . . . Will be enjoyed most by pre-professional students and psychoanalytically oriented theoreticians and practitioners." --Choice "This is a sympathetic and readable account of Melanie Klein and her work. Klein's theories are considered by many to be particularly impenetrable, yet Julia Segal gives a clear analysis of the major themes. Certainly her short exposition of countertransference processes was one of the most comprehensible I have come across. . . . Segal gives in this short book an overview of Klein's place and influence . . . as well as excellent definitions of the major Kleinian concepts." --Counselling "It is lively, readable, and comprehensively researched. As an introduction to the influence of a truly original mind on the psycho-analytic understanding of psychic development in young children, and how unconscious Phantasy, schizoid defenses and paranoid anxieties are implicated in adult psychopatholog, this book can be thoroughly recommended. Julia Segal has taken pains to eliminate all unecessary technical language and to relate Klein's concepts to every day experiences in a refreshingly ordinary way. The text is well presented with many sub-headings dividing it into digestible 'bites' which should help the student grapple with concepts such as projective identification, symbol formation, envy, and reparation. Technical and practical issues in psychotherapy and counselling are treated well, with a clear rational for the Kleinian approach." --International Review of Psychiatry



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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is Melanie Klein and it was written by Julia Segal. This edition of Melanie Klein is in a Hardcover format. This books publish date is August 1992 and it has a suggested retail price of $105. There are pages in the book and it was published by Sage Pubns. The 10 digit ISBN is 0803984766 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780803984769. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.