Melanie Klein by Meira Likierman

Melanie Klein by Meira Likierman

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Summary

Melanie Klein was probably the most controversial and influential figure on the British psychoanalytic scene. She pioneered the psychoanalysis of children and applied her insights on the infantile origins of unconscious drives to adult analysis. This work assesses her work, life and influence.

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Melanie Klein by Meira Likierman

Melanie Klein remains one of the most important and influential figures in psychoanalysis. Klein pioneered the analysis of children and applied her insights on the infantile origins of unconscious drives to adult analysis.Meira Likierman's study is the best available introduction to Melanie Klein's thought and work.
"Klein has been quoted but she has never, until Likierman's book been properly readThis book reveals with patient lucidity just what is fascinating about Klein as a psychoanalytic theorist. It recovers her work, in other words, from the sentimentality and moralism in which her so-called followers have buried her. Likierman's Klein is a Klein for a new generation of readers."-Adam Phillips, author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored
"A useful corrective. Likierman's volume is an intellectual biography, more balanced than Phyllis Grosskurth's....For the most part chronologically organized, it describes Klein's ideas in an integrated, coherent way, using the intellectual context of Klein's works to elucidate meaning otherwise painstakingly rendered from the originals."--Choice, November 2001
Meira Likierman is a senior staff member at the Tavistock Clinic in London
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ISBN 13 9780826457707
ISBN 10 0826457703
Title Melanie Klein
Author Meira Likierman
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 2002-01-01
Number of pages 208
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.