Melanie Klein today : developments in theory and practice vol 1: mainly theory

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; General introduction; Part One: The analysis of psychotic patients; Introduction; 1 Notes on the psychoanalysis of the superego conflict of an acute schizophrenic patient; 2 Depression in the schizophrenic; 3 Differentiation of the psychotic from the non-psychotic personalities; Part Two: Projective identification; Introduction; 1 Attacks on linking; 2 The relation of anal masturbation to projective identification
3 Contribution to the psychopathology of psychotic states: the importance of projective identification in the ego structure and the object relations of the psychotic patient4 Projective identification - some clinical aspects; Part Three: On thinking; Introduction; 1 Notes on symbol formation; 2 A theory of thinking; 3 The experience of the skin in early object-relations; Part Four: Pathological organizations; Introduction; 1 Schizoid phenomena in the borderline; 2 Terror, persecution, dread - a dissection of paranoid anxieties
3 A clinical approach to the psychoanalytic theory of the life and death instincts: an investigation into the aggressive aspects of narcissism4 Cruelty and narrowmindedness; 5 Narcissistic organization, projective identification, and the formation of the identificate; 6 A clinical study of a defensive organization; 7 Addiction to near-death; 8 The interplay between pathological organizations and the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions; References to general introduction and other introductory material; Name Index; Subject Index

Melanie Klein Today, Volume 1 is the first of two volumes of collected essays devoted to developments in psychoanalysis based on the work of Melanie Klein.

The papers are arranged into four groups: the analysis of psychotic patients, projective identification, on thinking, and pathalogical organisation.