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  • Psychoanalysis and Art

    Kleinian Perspectives

    This essential edition brings together a collection of classic papers from key figures in Kleinian and post-Kleinian thought that explore the relationship between psychoanalysis and art.Sandra Gosso begins with a comprehensive and fascinating guide to the history of this relationship which began with Freud and was developed further by Melanie Klein at a time when most analysts were moving away ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • Selected Papers of Donald Meltzer - Vol. 2

    Philosophy and History of Psychoanalysis

    The contents of the three volumes are grouped not chronologically but under the headings of 'Personality and Family Structure', 'Philosophy and History of Psychoanalysis', and 'The Psychoanalytic Process and the Analyst'. Together they present his interpretation of the 'Kleinian development' from Freud, through Abraham and Klein, to Bion and the post-Kleinian model; and within this evolution, his ... Read more

    $36.00 USD

  • Exploring the Work of Donald Meltzer

    A Festschrift

    This book is a tribute to Donald Melzer's extraordinary contribution to psychoanalysis. It includes many of the papers given at the Tavistock Centre in London to celebrate Meltzer's 75th Birthday. Among the contributions, Margaret Rustin and Michael Rustin write on the work of Samuel Beckett; Gianna Williams elaborates upon Meltzer's thinking about the meeting of mother and baby; Didier Houzel ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Apprehension of Beauty

    The Role of Aesthetic Conflict in Development, Art and Violence

    In this book Donald Meltzer formulates his concept of 'aesthetic conflict', at the heart of personality development. Clinical material interdigitates with literary criticism by Meg Harris Williams illustrating the same theme. The revised psychoanalytic model of the mind that results suggests how the aesthetic aspects of just being born can have simultaneously a most violent and a most tender ... Read more

    $41.00 USD

  • Selected Papers of Donald Meltzer - Vol. 3

    The Psychoanalytic Process and the Analyst

    The contents of the three volumes are grouped not chronologically but under the headings of 'Personality and Family Structure', 'Philosophy and History of Psychoanalysis', and 'The Psychoanalytic Process and the Analyst'. Together they present his interpretation of the 'Kleinian development' from Freud, through Abraham and Klein, to Bion and the post-Kleinian model; and within this evolution, his ... Read more

    $36.00 USD

  • Post-Autism

    A Psychoanalytical Narrative, with Supervisions by Donald Meltzer

    Post-Autism recounts in close and vivid detail the story of the author's struggle to analyse and communicate with a pubertal boy who presented with a diagnosis of untreated infantile autism. Marisa Mélega, who was at that time a young and relatively inexperienced analyst, worked with Mário in São Paulo, Brazil, from 1978 to 1982 and during most of that period the case was supervised by Donald ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • The Psychoanalytical Process

    This classic account sets forth an integrated concept of the 'natural history' of the psychoanalytical process, emerging in the light of experience gained in the child-analytical playroom, and applied to the more complicated phenomena of adult patients. The Kleinian concepts of projective identification and the internal world are expanded by the Meltzerian view of the 'natural history' of an ... Read more

    $36.00 USD

  • The Kleinian Development Part 3

    The Clinical Significance of the Work of Bion

    Meltzer describes the series of lectures on Freud, Klein and Bion known as The Kleinian Development as both a quest for personal integration into some kind of 'combined internal psychoanalytic object', under whose aegis he personally could aspire to work, and as a vademecum for students. They were originally delivered to students at the Institute and at the Tavistock, specifically with the aim of ... Read more

    $36.00 USD

  • The Kleinian Development Part 1

    Freud's Clinical Development – Method–Data–Theory

    Meltzer describes the series of lectures on Freud, Klein and Bion known as The Kleinian Development as both a quest for personal integration into some kind of 'combined internal psychoanalytic object', under whose aegis he personally could aspire to work, and as a vademecum for students. They were originally delivered to students at the Institute and at the Tavistock, specifically with the aim of ... Read more

    $36.00 USD

  • Adolescence

    Talks and Papers by Donald Meltzer and Martha Harris

    This volume contains a representative selection of talks and writings by Martha Harris and Donald Meltzer on the key developmental phase of adolescence, from their teachings both separately and together over many years. Their psychological penetration into this phase or condition transcends changes in culture and environment, focussing on the 'community of adolescents' as a state of mind ... Read more

    $45.00 USD

  • Dream Life

    A Re-examination of the Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique

    'Dreams are my landscape', said Meltzer. In this book, he reviews the metapsychology of dream theory through Freud, Klein and Bion and re-establishes psychoanalysis as the art of reading dreams, and dream-life as the core of mental processes. Meltzer views dream life as a continuum within each personality, of which the psychoanalyst is offered a privileged sampling, just as the child analyst is ... Read more

    $35.00 USD

  • Explorations in Autism

    A Psychoanalytical Study

    Explorations in Autism is a turning-point in both the understanding of and the clinical approach to autism. The clinical material gradually unveils the geography of the internal mother (which proved crucial for the development of Meltzer's 'claustrum' theory) and allowed him to draft, for the first time in psychoanalysis, a theory of the dimensionality of mental life. At the same time this sheds a ... Read more

    $40.00 USD