The toys pictured in the menu picture above
are those used by Melanie Klein in her pioneering psychoanalytic work with
children.
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Dr Hanna Segal
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Elizabeth Spillius
Encounters with Melanie Klein: Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius
Dr Eric Brenman
Recovery of the lost good object
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'The power of love - which is the
manifestation of the forces which tend
to preserve life - is there in the baby as
well as the destructive impulses, and
finds its first fundamental expression
in the baby’s attachment to his mother’s
breast which develops into love for her
as a person.
My psycho-analytic work has convinced
me that when in the baby’s mind the
conflicts between love and hate arise,
and the fears of losing the loved one
become active, a very important step is
made in development.
These feelings of guilt and distress now
Melanie Klein became famous as a pioneering child psychoanalyst whose work
from the 1920s until her death in 1960 shed vivid new light on the
emotional
life of infants and children. Born in Austria in 1882, she moved to
Britain
in 1926 and soon became a controversial but powerful presence in the
British
Psychoanalytical Society, in London. Together with a group of brilliant
students (including Hanna Segal, Wilfred Bion and Herbert Rosenfeld) she
did
pathbreaking work in the understanding and treatment of narcissistic
disorders and the psychoses. Since her death Melanie Klein's ideas have
been
further developed by those she taught or influenced, in many parts of the
world.
The Trust was set up to promote training and research in the
psychoanalytic theory and technique
associated with Melanie Klein’s work.
Registered
Charity: 251672