The trustees are very sad to announce the
recent deaths of three distinguished colleagues and friends. Obituaries for
Dr Segal can
be found here
Dr Hanna Segal, former chair of the Melanie Klein Trust, and leading
proponent of Melanie Klein's work, died in London on the 5th July 2011.
Hanna Segal is renowned as an outstanding psychoanalyst, clinician,
supervisor, original thinker and author of many seminal books and papers.
Mrs Ruth Riesenberg Malcolm, former member of the Melanie Klein
Trust, died in London in June 2011. A perceptive and sensitive
psychoanalyst, Ruth Riesenberg Malcolm wrote about her work in 'On Bearing
Unbearable States of Mind' (Edited by Priscilla Roth, Routledge 1999)
Dr Murray Jackson died in France on the 5th July 2011. Murray Jackson
worked as a psychoanalyst and consultant psychiatrist at the Maudsley
Hospital in London where he was appreciated by many as a gifted clinician
and a talented and influential teacher.