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YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW

HANNA SEGAL, distinguished senior member and former President of the British Psychoanalytical Society

Edited and Introduced by NICOLA ABEL HIRSCH

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow presents a selection of papers written by Hanna Segal. The collection introduces the reader to a wide spectrum of insights into psychoanalysis, ranging from current thoughts on the nature of dreaming to the psychotic factors, symbolic significance and psychological impact of the events of September the 11th, and the following war on Iraq. The development of Kleinian thought, and ideas of Bion and Freud are also discussed.

The second half of the book discusses Segal’s presentations to conferences and symposia from 1969 – 2000, this material is split into six distinct sections:

·    models of the mind and mental processes

·    psychoanalytic technique

·    Segal on Klein

·    Segal on Bion
·    envy and narcissism

·    interviews.

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow  is a welcome contribution to the field, and will be of interest to anyone interested in psychoanalysis, particularly those acquainted with Hanna Segal’s previous work.

July 2007: 232pp.

Hb: 0-415-41573-X / 978-0-415-41573-6: £55.00/$90.00 Pb: 0-415-41574-8 / 978-0-415-41574-3: £20.99/$33.95

New publication

Encounters with Melanie Klein: Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius
Elizabeth Spillius

In Encounters with Melanie Klein: Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius the author argues that her two professions, anthropology and psychoanalysis, have much in common, and explains how her background in anthropology led her on to a profound involvement in psychoanalysis and her establishment as a leading figure amongst Kleinian analysts.

Spillius describes what she regards as the important features of Kleinian thought and discusses the research she has carried out in Melanie Klein’s unpublished Archive, including Klein’s views on projective identification.

Spillius’s own clinical ideas make up the last part of the book with papers on Envy, Phantasy, Technique, the Negative Therapeutic Reaction and Otherness.

Her writing has a clarity which is very particular to her . . . she conveys complicated ideas in a most straightforward manner, well illustrated with pertinent clinical material.

This book represents fifty years of the developing thought and scholarship of a talented and dedicated psychoanalyst.

  The General Introduction to this book can be read by clicking the link below. We are grateful to Mrs Spillius for allowing us
   also to reproduce the Preface to her book.

   Read General Introduction

•  Recovery of the Lost Good Object
   Eric Brenman

Copyright © 2007 The Melanie Klein Trust