Full Description
This book fills a gap in psychoanalytic literature by offering a rigorous analysis of the intersections and divergences between the three foundational figures in psychoanalysis: Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion, and Donald Winnicott.
Klein, Bion, and Winnicott: Theoretical and Clinical Convergences and Divergences invites professionals and academics into a comparative dialogue across psychoanalytic traditions and equips them to understand how the ideas of these three authors interweave and unfold in distinct directions, impacting clinical practice and the comprehension of complex psychic processes. By exploring aspects such as Klein's theory of internal objects, positions, and envy; Bion's alpha function, reverie, and capacity for thinking; and Winnicott's notions of emotional development, transitional space, and therapeutic regression, this book provides a comprehensive view of the implications of each theory in the contemporary clinical context.
With copious clinical material and a deep understanding of all 3 subjects, this book is key reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and advanced trainees at all stages of their careers and for anyone wishing to broaden their understanding of the works of Klein, Bion, and Winnicott.
Contents
1. Psychoanalytic Interpretation in Klein and Winnicott: A Comparative Study 2. The Notion of Fantasy in Klein and Winnicott 3. The Depressive Position according to Klein and Winnicott 4.The Capacity to Think: A Perspective from Bion and Winnicott 5. The Process of Symbolisation in Klein and Bion 6. The basic function of the mother (and of the analyst) according to Bion and Winnicott, with a focus on the concepts of reverie and holding 7. Regression in Psychoanalysis: Contrasts Between Klein and Winnicott 8. The Concept of the Superego According to Klein and Winnicott 9. The Body as the Support of the Psyche-Soma in Winnicott versus the Body as the Raw and Sensory Basis of Thought in Bion (Somatic Reverie) 10. The origin of psychosis according to Bion and Winnicott
