Adolescence

Talks and Papers by Donald Meltzer and Martha Harris

By (author) Donald Meltzer By (author) Martha Harris

Book cover: Adolescence

Extent: 252 pages

Publisher: The Harris Meltzer Trust

Subjects: Psychology, Psychoanalysis, & Psychotherapy

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(October 2018)

ISBN: 9781912567515

5.94 x 9.09 inches

Price: $45.00

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(October 2018)

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This volume contains a representative selection of talks and writings by Martha Harris and Donald Meltzer on the key developmental phase of adolescence, from their teachings both separately and together over many years. Similar books on this topic by these authors have existed for some time in Italian and in Spanish but not until now in English.

Foreword by Jonathan Bradley 1. Your Teenager Martha Harris (1969) 2. Identification and socialization in adolescence Donald Meltzer (1967) 3.Adolescent psychoanalytical theory Donald Meltzer (1973) 4. Emotional problems in adolescence: an adolescent girl Martha Harris (1973) 5. The psychopathology of adolescence Donald Meltzer (1973) 6. Adolescent sexuality Martha Harris (1969) 7. Infantile elements and adult strivings inadolescent sexuality Martha Harris (1976) 8. The paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions Donald Meltzer (1975) 9. Depression and the depressive position in an adolescent boy Martha Harris (1965, 1975) 10. From puberty to adolescence Donald Meltzer (1975) 11. Juan: a constant disappointment Jesus Sanchez de Vega and Donald Meltzer (1998) 12. Elsa: fear of the adolescent community Nouhad Dow and Donald Meltzer (1998) 13. An adolescent voyeur Donald Meltzer (1997) 14. The claustrum and adolescence Donald Meltzer (1992) 15. A theory of sexual perversion Donald Meltzer (1974) 16. Narcissism and violence in adolescents Donald Meltzer (1989) 17. Adolescence: after the hurricane Donald Meltzer (c. 2002) References Index,

CONTENTS

Foreword by Jonathan Bradley

1. Your Teenager

Martha Harris (1969)

2. Identification and socialization in adolescence
Donald Meltzer (1967)

3.  Adolescent psychoanalytical theory
Donald Meltzer (1973)

4. Emotional problems in adolescence: an adolescent girl
Martha Harris (1973)

5. The psychopathology of adolescence
Donald Meltzer (1973)

6. Adolescent sexuality
Martha Harris (1969)

7. Infantile elements and adult strivings inadolescent sexuality
Martha Harris (1976)

8. The paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions
Donald Meltzer (1975)

9. Depression and the depressive position in an adolescent boy
Martha Harris (1965, 1975)

10. From puberty to adolescence
Donald Meltzer (1975)

11. Juan: a constant disappointment
Jesús Sánchez de Vega and Donald Meltzer (1998)

12. Elsa: fear of the adolescent community
Nouhad Dow and Donald Meltzer (1998)

13. An adolescent voyeur
Donald Meltzer (1997)

14. The claustrum and adolescence
Donald Meltzer (1992)

15. A theory of sexual perversion
Donald Meltzer (1974)

16. Narcissism and violence in adolescents
Donald Meltzer (1989)

17. Adolescence: after the hurricane
Donald Meltzer (c. 2002)

References
Index

Martha Harris (1919–1987) read English at University College London and then Psychology at Oxford. She taught in a Froebel Teacher Training College and was trained as a Psychologist at Guys Hospital, as a Child Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, where she was for many years responsible for the child psychotherapy training in the department of Children and Families, and as a Psychoanalyst at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis. Together with her first husband Roland Harris (a teacher) she started a pioneering schools counselling service. With her second husband Donald Meltzer she wrote a psychoanalytical model of The Child in the Family in the Community for multidisciplinary use in schools and therapeutic units.

Donald Meltzer (1923–2004) was born in New York and studied medicine at Yale. After practising as a psychiatrist specialising in children and families, he moved to England to have analysis with Melanie Klein in the 1950s, and for some years was a training analyst with the British Society. He worked with both adults and children, and was innovative in the treatment of autistic children; in the treatment of children he worked closely with Esther Bick and Martha Harris whom he later married. He taught child psychiatry and psychoanalytic history at the Tavistock Clinic. He also took a special scholarly interest in art and aesthetics, based on a lifelong love of art. Meltzer taught widely and regularly in many countries, in Europe, Scandinavia, and North and South America, and his books have been published in many languages and continue to be increasingly influential in the teaching of psychoanalysis.
His first book, The Psychoanalytical Process, was published by Heinemann in 1967 and was received with some suspicion (like all his books) by the psychoanalytic establishment. Subsequent books were published by Clunie Press for the Roland Harris Educational Trust which he set up together with Martha Harris (now the Harris Meltzer Trust). The Process was followed by Sexual States of Mind in 1973, Explorations in Autism in 1975; The Kleinian Development in 1978 (his lectures on Freud, Klein and Bion given to students at the Tavistock); Dream Life in 1984; The Apprehension of Beauty in 1988 (with Meg Harris Williams); and The Claustrum in 1992.

  • By (author) Donald Meltzer
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