The Kleinian Development Part 3

The Clinical Significance of the Work of Bion

By (author) Donald Meltzer

Book cover: The Kleinian Development Part 3

Extent: 160 pages

Publisher: The Harris Meltzer Trust

Subjects: Psychology, Psychoanalysis, & Psychotherapy

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(October 2018)

ISBN: 9781912567669

5.94 x 8.98 inches

Price: $36.00

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(October 2018)

ISBN: 9781912567683

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The Kleinian Development derives from lectures delivered at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London, and the Tavistock Clinic (1965-78). It is divided into three volumes that examine, in turn, the writings of Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, and Wilfred Bion.


The Kleinian Development derives from lectures delivered at the Institute of Psychanalysis, London, and the Tavistock Clinic (1965-78). It is divided into three volumes that examine, in turn, the writings of Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, and Wilfred Bion.

Foreword Meg Harris Williams Introduction and required reading 1. Experiences in groups 2. Re-view of 'Group dynamics' and 'The imaginary twin' 3. The schizophrenia papers 4. Approach to a theory of thinking 5. Alpha-function and beta-elements 6. Container and contained - the prototype of learning 7. The elements of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical objects 8. The role of myth in the employment of thoughts 9. Psychoanalytical observation and the theory of transformations 10. Analytic truth and the operation of multiple vertices 11. 'Learning about' as resistance to 'becoming' 12. The bondage of memory and desire 13. The psychoanalytic couple and the group 14. Review: catastrophic change and the mechanisms of defence Appendix: A note on Bion's concept 'reversal of alpha-function' Index,

Foreword
Meg Harris Williams

Introduction and required reading

1. Experiences in groups

2. Re-view of ‘Group dynamics’ and ‘The imaginary twin’

3. The schizophrenia papers


4. Approach to a theory of thinking


5. Alpha-function and beta-elements


6. Container and contained – the prototype of learning


7. The elements of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical objects


8. The role of myth in the employment of thoughts


9. Psychoanalytical observation and the theory of transformations

10. Analytic truth and the operation of multiple vertices

11. ‘Learning about’ as resistance to ‘becoming’


12. The bondage of memory and desire


13. The psychoanalytic couple and the group


14. Review: catastrophic change and the mechanisms of defence


Appendix: A note on Bion’s concept ‘reversal of alpha-function’

Index

 
  • By (author) Donald Meltzer