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Elizabeth Spillius and Edna O'Shaughnessy
Projective Identification:
The Fate of a Concept
John Steiner
Seeing and Being Seen
Michael Feldman
Doubt, Conviction and the Analytic Process
and Alessandra Lemma (Eds)
Envy and Gratitude Revisited
Dr John Steiner (Ed)
Rosenfeld in Retrospect
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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In this book Elizabeth Spillius and Edna O'Shaughnessy explore the development of the concept of projective identification, which had important antecedents in the work of Freud and others, but was given a specific name and definition by Melanie Klein. They describe Klein's published and unpublished views on the topic, and then consider the way the concept has been variously described, evolved, accepted, rejected and modified by analysts of different schools of thought and in various locations – Britain, Western Europe, North America and Latin America.
The authors believe that this unusually widespread interest in a particular concept and its varied ‘fate’ has occurred not only because of beliefs about its clinical usefulness in the psychoanalytic setting but also because projective identification is a universal aspect of human interaction and communication.
Projective Identification: The Fate of a Concept will appeal to any psychoanalyst or psychotherapist who uses the ideas of transference and counter-transference, as well as to academics wanting further insight into the evolution of this concept as it moves between different cultures and countries.
Table of Contents
Spillius, O'Shaughnessy, Foreword. Part I: Melanie Klein's Work. Spillius, The Emergence of Klein's Idea of Projective Identification in Her Published and Unpublished Work. Klein, Notes on Some Schizoid Mechanisms. PartII: Some British Kleinian Developments. Spillius, Developments by British Kleinian Analysts. Bion, Attacks on Linking. Rosenfeld, Contribution to the Psychopathology of Psychotic States: The Importance of Projective Identification in the Ego Structure and the Object Relations of the Psychotic Patient. Joseph, Projective Identification: Some Clinical Aspects. Feldman, Projective Identification: The Analyst's Involvement. Sodré, Who’s Who? Notes on Pathological Identifications. Part III: The Plural Psychoanalytic Scene. Spillius, O'Shaughnessy, Introduction. The British Psychoanalytic Society. O'Shaughnessy, The Views of Contemporary Freudians and Independents about the Concept of Projective Identification. Sandler, The Concept of Projective Identification. Continental Europe. Spillius, Introduction. Hinz, Projective Identification: The Fate of the Concept in Germany. Canestri, Projective Identification: The Fate of the Concept in Italy and Spain. Quinodoz, Projective Identification in Contemporary French-Language Psychoanalysis. The United States. Spillius, Introduction.Schafer, Projective Identification in the USA: An Overview. Spillius, A Brief Review of Projective Identification in American Psychoanalytic Literature. Malin, Grotstein, Projective Identification in the Therapeutic Process. Ogden,On Projective Identification. Mason, Vicissitudes of Projective Identification. Latin America. Meyer, Introduction.Jarast, Projective Identification: Projections in Argentina. Massi, Projective Identification: Brazilian Variations of the Concept. Jordan-Moore, Projective Identification and the Weight of Intersubjectivity. Spillius, O'Shaughnessy, Afterword.
Author/Editor Biography
Elizabeth Spillius studied general psychology at the University of Toronto (1945), social anthropology at the University of Chicago, The London School of Economics and The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (1945-1957) and psychoanalysis at the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London (1956 to the present). Her main writings have been Family and Social Network (1957, writing as Elizabeth Bott), Tongan Society at the Time of Captain Cook's Visits (1982), Melanie Klein Today (1988) and Encounters with Melanie Klein (2007)
Edna O'Shaughnessy came to psychoanalysis from philosophy. She trained first as a Child Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic in the 1950s, and then in the 1960s, she trained at the British Psychoanalytical Society, of which she is a training and supervising analyst and also a child analyst. Her many published papers are written from both a clinical and a conceptual perspective
Elizabeth Bott Spillius, whose original background was in anthropology, is a training analyst at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis and a Distinguished FellowJohn Dteiner PsychoanalytiSeeeing Seeny.
Jane Milton is a Fellow and training analyst at the Institute of Psychoanalysis. She worked as a consultant psychiatrist at the Tavistock Clinic before becoming a full time psychoanalytic practitioner.
Penelope Garvey is a Fellow and training analyst at the Institute of Psychoanalysis who works both in private psychoanalytic practice and as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist in Plymouth NHS.
Cyril Couve is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and is in full time private practice as a psychoanalyst. He was formerly a senior psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic.
Deborah Steiner is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Qualified in both adult and child and adolescent psychoanalysis she has held senior NHS posts.
"John Steiner continues the explorations he began in his excellent Psychic Retreats. In the course of fulfilling his aims, he has also summed up and enriched contemporary insight into many other aspects of the work of psychoanalysis and has laid out a Kleinian approach to resistance that is up-to-date, inclusive, and detailed." - Roy Schafer, from the Foreword
Foreword by Roy Schafer. Introduction. Part I: Embarrassment, Shame, And Humiliation. The Anxiety of Being Seen: Narcissistic Pride and Narcissistic Humiliation. Gaze, Dominance, and Humiliation in the Schreber Case. Improvement and the Embarrassment of Tenderness. Transference to the Analyst as an Excluded Observer. Part II: Helplessness, Power, and Dominance. The Struggle for Dominance in the Oedipus Situation. Helplessness and The Exercise of Power in the Analytic Session. Revenge And Resentment In The ‘Oedipus Situation’. Part III: Mourning, Melancholia, and the Repetition Compulsion. The Conflict Between Mourning And Melancholia. Repetition Compulsion, Envy, and the Death Instinct. References. Index
John Steiner is a training analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and works in private practice as a psychoanalyst. He is the author of several psychoanalytic papers and a book entitled Psychic Retreats (Routledge, 1993).
Iago on the Couch - Preview
Created by
the Institute of Psychoanalysis, Iago
on the Couch is the
first of a series of filmed discussions exploring some of Shakespeare’s most
complex and compelling characters. Iago
on the Couch sees
four pre-eminent figures in the theatrical and psychoanalytic fields engage in
discussion about the richly enigmatic character of Iago from Shakespeare’s Othello.
In a
discussion chaired by Don Campbell, former president of the British
Psychoanalytic Society, actor Simon Russell Beale, director Terry Hands, and
analysts Ignês Sodré and David Bell engage with this most notorious of
Shakespeare’s characters. Extensive theatrical experience and psychoanalytic
expertise meet in a deeply involved and wide-ranging examination of
Shakespeare’s arch manipulator.
On the 7th December
of this year, in the apt surroundings of London’s Freud Museum, the discussion
was filmed live by candlelight around the dining room table previously owned and
used by Sigmund Freud himself.
The
finished DVD will include an commentaries by renowned British psychoanalyst Ron
Britton, as well as a literary critical commentary by Laurie Maguire, Professor
of English literature at Magdalene College, University of Oxford and Michael
Billington, renowned theatre academic, writer and theatre critic.
As study material for students of literature, a work of interest to the general viewer, and an invaluable record of some of our generation’s most outstanding contributors to theatre and psychoanalysis, Iago on the Couch will be a source of fascination for many.
Click on image for a preview of Iago on the Couch
Bion
Today
Chris
Mawson (Ed) (2010)
Bion Today explores how Bion’s work is used in contemporary settings; how his ideas have been applied at the level of the individual, the group and the organisation; and which phenomena have been made more comprehensible through the lenses of his concepts. The book introduces distinctive psychoanalytic contributions to show the ways in which distinguished analysts have explored and developed the ideas of Wilfred Bion.
Drawing on the contributors’ experience of using Bion’s ideas in clinical work, topics include:
- an introduction to Bion
- clarification of the inter-related concepts of countertransference and enactment
- concepts integrating group and individual phenomena
- clinical implications of Bion’s thought
- Bion’s approach to psychoanalysis.
Bion Today will be a valuable resource for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and all those who are interested in learning more about Bion’s thinking and his work.
"This is a very stimulating, at times almost provocative, book. It will make a fresh and valuable contribution to our thinking about the nature and significance of Bion’s work today." - Betty Joseph, Distinguished Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society.
Teaching the psychoanalytic approach in Ukraine
Penelope
Garvey
Doubt, Conviction and the Analytic Process:
Selected Papers of Michael Feldman (2009)
Michael
Feldman
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In this profound and subtle study, a practising psychoanalyst explores the dynamics of the interaction between the patient and the analyst. Michael Feldman draws the
reader into experiencing how the clinical interaction
unfolds within a session. In doing so, he develops some of
the implications of the important pioneering work of such
analysts as Klein, Rosenfeld and Joseph, showing in fine
detail some of the ways in which the patient feels driven to
communicate to the analyst, not only in order to be
understood by him, but also in order to affect him. This collection of essays not only throws light on fascinating questions of technique, but also reflects on elements that are fundamental to psychoanalytic work. It is essential reading for practising psychoanalysts and those in training, as well as anyone with a general interest in the psychoanalytic relationship between the client and the therapist in the consulting room.
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Interview
Interview with Dr Albert Mason
Michael
Feldman & John Steiner
