The Clinical Paradigms of Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott

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. The aim is twofold - to introduce and to prompt research.

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