The Clinical Paradigms of Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott seeks to introduce the distinctive psychoanalytic basic principles of both Klein and Winnicott, to compare and contrast the way in which their concepts evolved, and to show how their different approaches contribute to distinctive psychoanalytic paradigms.

Jan Abram in a Training and Supervising Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She is the author of several publications including: The Language of Winnicott (1st edition 1996 awarded Outstanding Academic Book of the Year 1997 and a Classic Book P.E.P.) and editor of Donald Winnicott Today (Routledge, 2013). She was a Visiting Professor of the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex (2011-2013) and University of Kyoto, Japan (2016). Currently she is Visiting Professor for the Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London, and a Visiting Lecturer for the Tavistock Clinic, London.

R. D. Hinshelwood is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society; previously Director of the Cassel Hospital, and Professor in the University of Essex (now Emeritus). He has written extensively on Kleinian psychoanalysis, including A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought (1989) and Clinical Klein (1993). He has taken an interest in and published on the problems of making evidenced comparisons between different psychoanalytic schools.

Preface

Notes on Authors

Biographical Notes and Chronologies

Melanie Klein (1882 - 1960)

Donald Winnicott (1896 - 1971)

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE - BASIC PRINCIPLES

Chapter One - Melanie Klein - Bob Hinshelwood

Chapter Two - Donald Winnicott - Jan Abram

SUMMARY

DIALOGUE

PART TWO - EARLY PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT

Chapter Three - The Kleinian baby - Bob Hinshelwood

Chapter Four - The Winnicottian babies - Jan Abram

SUMMARY

DIALOGUE

PART THREE - THE ROLE OF THE EXTERNAL OBJECT

Chapter Five - Anxiety and phantasy - Bob Hinshelwood

Chapter Six - The environment-individual set up - Jan Abram

SUMMARY

DIALOGUE

PART FOUR - THE PSYCHOANALYTIC CONCEPT OF PSYCHIC PAIN

Chapter Seven - Melanie Klein and internal anxiety - Bob Hinshelwood

Chapter Eight - Donald Winnicott's view of aggression - Jan Abram

SUMMARY

DIALOGUE

PART FIVE - PRACTICE AND THEORY

Chapter Nine - Whose Reality? Whose Experience? - Bob Hinshelwood

Chapter Ten - Holding and the Mutative Interpretation - Jan Abram

SUMMARY

DIALOGUE

APPENDIX - Myths and misperceptions

GLOSSARY

FURTHER READING

AFTERWORD

References