In "Melanie Klein Today, Volume 2," Elizabeth Bott Spillius brings together classic and new papers on the understanding of Kleinian therapeutic techniques. In recent years there have been important refinements in this technique, notably in regard to the balance to be struck in interpreting destructiveness, the use of the so-called part-object language, and the precise ways to understand and interpret acting-in' and the role of the past in the present. This collection draws these developments together and makes clear why an integral part of contemporary Kleinian theory and practice is concerned with the carefuerapeutic process itself. The volume includes further detailed accounts of clinical work with both adults and children and takes further the theoretical ideas discussed in "Melanie Klein Today, Volume 1" . The papers and the editorial commentary in this book together comprise the most illuminating and coherent rationale for the Kleinian technique yet published.
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1 Some aspects of the analysis of a schizophrenic (1950) 2 The mirror: a perverse sexual phantasy in a woman seen as a defence against a psychotic breakdown (1970) 3 Words and working through (1983) Part Three: The analysis of children Introduction 1 Depression and the depressive position in an adolescent boy (1965) 2 Child analysis today (1962) 3 W.R.Bion's theory of thinking and new techniques in child analysis (1981) 4 The invisible Oedipus complex (1988) 5 Communication and containing in child analysis: towards terminability (1988) Part Four: The application of Kleinian ideas in other fields of workIntroduction 1 Death and the mid-life crisis (1965) 2 Delusion and artistic creativity: some reflections on reading The Spire by William Golding (1974) 3 Psychoanalysis and ceremony (1968) 4 A psychoanalytic perspective on social institutions (1988)