The outcome is a volume of diverse papers by different authors which form a cogent whole.
Elizabeth Bott Spillius gathers classic and contemporary Kleinian papers to set out what a distinctively Kleinian technique looks like in the consulting room, a subject often assumed but rarely described. The volume moves through clinical work with adults, clinical work with children, and the use of Kleinian thinking in other settings.
The papers track how practitioners handle the interpretation of destructiveness, the place of part-object language, acting-in, and the way a patient's past enters the present session. Spillius introduces and critically discusses each section, so the reader follows how technique developed after Klein rather than meeting the papers in isolation.
It serves as the practical companion to the theory volume, published by Routledge in 1988 within the New Library of Psychoanalysis. The clinical material stays close to the detail of sessions, giving a working picture of how the ideas are put to use.
About the authors
Elizabeth Bott Spillius
Elizabeth Bott Spillius (1924 to 2016) was a Canadian-born scholar who trained first as a social anthropologist, conducting fieldwork in Tonga and studying family and social networks in London, before becoming a psychoanalyst. A training analyst and Distinguished Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, she worked within the Kleinian tradition. She edited the two-volume Melanie Klein Today (1988), which brought contemporary Kleinian thinking to a wide readership, and wrote on projective identification, envy, and the development of Kleinian technique.
Elizabeth Bott Spillius
Elizabeth Bott Spillius (1924 to 2016) was a Canadian-born scholar who trained first as a social anthropologist, conducting fieldwork in Tonga and studying family and social networks in London, before becoming a psychoanalyst. A training analyst and Distinguished Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, she worked within the Kleinian tradition. She edited the two-volume Melanie Klein Today (1988), which brought contemporary Kleinian thinking to a wide readership, and wrote on projective identification, envy, and the development of Kleinian technique.
Details
- 1988
- Routledge
- Routledge
- 328
- 9780415010450