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Rosenfeld in Retrospect
Essays on his Clinical Influence
Edited by John Steiner

Rosenfeld in Retrospect How has Herbert Rosenfeld contributed to psychoanalysis today?

Rosenfeld in Retrospect presents original psychoanalytic papers showing the influence of Herbert Rosenfeld on psychoanalysis today, and reproduces some of Rosenfeld's most important clinical writings.

In the first part of this book, The Conference Papers: Contemporary Developments of Rosenfeld's Work, the editor brings together papers and discussions by Rosenfeld's well-known contemporaries, Ronald Britton, Michael Feldman, Edna O'Shaughnessy, Hanna Segal and Riccardo Steiner who explore his contribution to psychoanalysis. John Steiner demonstrates the importance of Rosenfeld's classic papers, and critically surveys the more controversial developments in his later work. Part two contains four papers by Rosenfeld, chosen by his colleagues to be his most significant and original contributions.

This collection conveys Rosenfeld's liveliness and influence, and will be of interest to all of those attracted to his work.

List of contributors

Ronald Britton was educated at the Royal Grammar School Lancaster and University College London; he qualified in Medicine at University College Hospital in 1956, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He is a training analyst of the Institute of Psychoanalysis and was formerly Chair of the Child and Family Dept Tavistock Clinic, President of the British Psychoanalytic Society and a Vice-President of the International Psychoanalytic Association.
 
Michael Feldman is a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. In addition to his clinical work and teaching in London, he regularly works with analysts in several European countries, and the USA. His papers explore theoretical and technical issues that arise in the interplay of transference and counter-transference, the patient's use of projective mechanisms, and the pressures both on the patient and the analyst towards defensive action rather than thought. He has co-edited, with Elizabeth Bott Spillius, Psychic Equilibrium and Psychic Change: Selected Papers of Betty Joseph (Routledge, 1989).
 
Edna O'Shaughnessy is a training analyst for children and adults in the British Psychoanalytical Society. Her many papers include `Enclaves and excursions', `What is a Clinical Fact?', `Relating to the Super-ego' and `Whose Bion?'.
 
Hanna Segal is one of the most important figures in British psychoanalysis. Her first book, An Introduction to the Work of Melanie Klein, has become a classic and she has since written four more books and a large number of original papers in psychoanalysis including several on the psychoanalytical contribution to aesthetics and to the socio-political field. She has twice served as President of the British Psychoanalytical Society and as Vice-President of the International Psychoanalytic Association. Her latest book, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow was published in 2007.
 
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 the book Psychic Retreats.
 
Riccardo Steiner is the author of several papers and books including important work on the history of psychoanalysis. His account, with Pearl King, of the Controversial Discussions in the British Society has won special acclaim. He is a psychoanalyst in private practice and a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society.
 

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Structure of Book:

Rosenfeld in Retrospect: Some Essays on his Clinical Influence.

Contents.
Acknowledgements
Notes about the Authors
Introduction
 

Section 1. The Conference Papers: Contemporary Developments of Rosenfeld’s work.

Chapter 1. Intrusions  Edna O’Shaughnessy

Chapter 2. Discussion  Michael Feldman

Chapter 3. What part does narcissism play in narcissistic disorders?  Ronald Britton

Chapter 4. Discussion  Hanna Segal

Chapter 5. Some Notes on H. A. Rosenfeld’s Contribution to Psychoanalytic Development  Riccardo Steiner

Chapter 6. A personal review of Rosenfeld’s contribution to clinical psychoanalysis   John Steiner
 

Section 2. Four papers by Herbert Rosenfeld

Chapter 7. Analysis of a schizophrenic state with depersonalisation (1947)

Chapter 8. On the psychopathology of narcissism: a clinical approach  (1964)

Chapter 9. A clinical approach to the psychoanalytic theory of the life and death instincts: an investigation into the aggressive aspects of narcissism (1971)

Chapter 10. The importance of projective identification in the ego structure and object relations of the psychotic patient (1971)
 

Copyright © 2008 The Melanie Klein Trust