Description
This set of papers, from members of the British Association of Psychotherapists, demonstrates the vitality of the 'Kleinian tradition' in work with adult patients. It is a picture of work from outside the inner circle of Kleinians in London. And it thus indicates how the concepts have fared in their transport into everyday psychotherapy.
Table of Contents
Introduction , Recollection and historical reconstruction , On the persistence of early loss and unresolved mourning , Interrelationships between internal and external factors in early development: current Kleinian thinking and implications for technique , “Turning a blind eye”: misrepresentation and the denial of life events , Tolerating emotional knowledge , Psychoanalytic psychotherapy for chronic depression , Notes on a case of paedophilia , When is enough enough? The process of termination with an older patient
