The Clinical Paradigms of Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott: Comparisons and Dialogues
About this ebook
The book consists of five main parts each with two chapters, one each by Abram and Hinshelwood that describes the views of Klein and of Winnicott on 5 chosen issues:
- Basic principles
- Early psychic development
- The role of the external object
- The psychoanalytic concept of psychic pain
- Conclusions on divergences and convergences
Each of the 5 parts will conclude with a dialogue between the authors on the topic of the chapter.
The Clinical Paradigms of Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott will appeal to who are being introduced to psychoanalytic ideas and especially to both these two schools of British Object Relations.
About the author
Jan Abram in a Training and Supervising Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She is the author of several publications including: The Language of Winnicott (1st edition 1996 awarded Outstanding Academic Book of the Year 1997 and a Classic Book P.E.P.) and editor of Donald Winnicott Today (Routledge, 2013). She was a Visiting Professor of the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex (2011-2013) and University of Kyoto, Japan (2016). Currently she is Visiting Professor for the Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London, and a Visiting Lecturer for the Tavistock Clinic, London.
R. D. Hinshelwood is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society; previously Director of the Cassel Hospital, and Professor in the University of Essex (now Emeritus). He has written extensively on Kleinian psychoanalysis, including A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought (1989) and Clinical Klein (1993). He has taken an interest in and published on the problems of making evidenced comparisons between different psychoanalytic schools.
