New Directions in Psychoanalysis

Melanie Klein's contribution to psycho-analysis is centered on her exploration into the early stages of the mental development of the child, which she began while a pupil of Karl Abraham. Taking as her starting point Freud's concept of free association, as used in the analysis of adults, she set herself the task of adapting this technique to the psycho-analytic treatment of children. From this was evolved her play technique whereby, though providing a situation in which a child could play "e;freely"e;, she was able to interpret his play - that is, describe and explain to him the feelings and phantasies that seemed to be expressed within it. By means of this technique, Klein made a most significant contribution to psycho-analysis. Not only she showed that it is possible to achieve therapeutic results more fruitful than those usually achieved with adults; but she was also able to map out in greater detail than had ever before been possible the early stages of mental development.

PREFACE BY ERNEST JOINES -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE -- PAPERS IN CLINICAL PSYCHO-ANALYSIS -- 1. MELANIEKLEN -- The Psydio-41nalytlc Play Technique: Its history and sigficawe -- 2. PAULA HEIMANN -- A Contribution w the re-eva1uation of the (Edipus Complex-early stages -- 3. W. CLIFFORD M. SCOTT -- A Psycho-Analytic concept of the orgin Depression -- 4. 11. GWEN EVANS -- Early Anxiety Situation in the aialynsefa boy rn the Lerscy Period -- 5. MARION MILNER -- The role of Illusion In Symbol Formation -- 6. LOIS MUNRO -- Steps in Ego-Integration observed In a Play-Analysis -- 7. EMIUO RODEUGUE -- The analysis of a three-year-old mute schizophrenic -- 8. HERBERT ROSENFELD -- Notes on the Psyche-Analysis of the Super-Ego Conflict in an acute schizophrenic patient -- 9. W.R.BION -- Language and the schizophrenic -- 10. PAULA HETMANN -- A combination of Defence Mechanisms in Paranoid States -- 11. BERYL SANDFORD -- An obsessional man's need to be "kept" -- H12. ANS A. THORNER -- Three Defeswcs against Inner Persecution -- PART TWO -- PAPERS IN APPLIED PSYCHO-ANALYSIS MELANIE KLEIN -- On identification -- 14. JOAN R.IVIERE -- The Unconscious Phantasy of an Inner World reflected in -- examples front literature -- 15. JOAN RIVIERE -- The Inner World in Ibsen's MASTER-BUILDER -- 16. HANNA SEGAL -- A Psycho-Analytical approach to Aesthetics -- 17. ADRIAN STOKES -- Form in Art -- 18. R. B. MONEY-KYRLE -- Psycho-Analysis and Ethics -- 19. W. K. BION -- Group Dynamics: a re-view -- 20. ELLIOTT JAQUES -- Social Systems as a defence against Persecutory and Deprcssiie -- Anxiety -- 21. R. E. MONEY-KYRLE -- An inconclusive contribution to the theory of the Death Instinct.