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Melanie Klein in Berlin

Her First Psychoanalyses of Children

• By Claudia Frank
• Edited by Elizabeth Spillius

Price: $39.95add to cart

• Price: $39.95
• Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
• Pages: 448
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 20th March 2009 (Available for Pre-order)
• ISBN: 978-0-415-48498-5

About the Book

In this book Claudia Frank discusses how Melanie Klein began to develop her psychoanalysis of children. Melanie Klein in Berlin: Her First Psychoanalyses of Children offers a detailed comparative analysis of both published and unpublished material from the Melanie Klein archives.

By using previously unpublished studies, Frank demonstrates how Klein enriched the concept of negative transference and laid the basis for the innovations on both technique and theory that eventually led not only to changes in child analysis, but also to changes in the analysis of adults. Frank also uncovers the influence that this had on Klein's later theories of the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions, and on her understanding of psychotic anxieties.

The first seven chapters on the book provide an explanation of the essence of Klein's approach to child psychoanalysis covering topics including:

• the inevitability and usefulness of negative transference
• development of play
• early conscious and unconscious phantasies

Section two provides a translation of Klein's unpublished notes on the treatments of four of the children she analysed in Berlin: seven year old Grete, two year old Rita, seven year old Inge and six year old Erna.

Melanie Klein in Berlin is the first text to make extensive use of Klein's unpublished papers, clinical notes, diaries and manuscripts. It will appeal to anyone involved in child psychoanalysis and the development of Melanie Klein's thinking.

About the Author(s)

Claudia Frank is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Stuttgart. She is a training analyst of the DPV, a constituent society of the International Psychoanalytic Association. Until 2001 she was Chair of Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics in the Department for Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics of the University in Tübingen. She has published papers on the technique, theory and history of psychoanalysis as well as on applied psychoanalysis. She is co-editor of the Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse.

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