Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and the Psychoanalysis of Children and Adolescents.
Title:
Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and the Psychoanalysis of Children and Adolescents.
Author:
Holder, Alex.
ISBN:
9781849404723
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (250 pages)
Contents:
COVER -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER ONE: Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO: The origins of child analysis -- Anna Freud -- Melanie Klein -- The Hampstead Child Therapy Course and Clinic -- CHAPTER THREE:The technique of child analysis -- The controversies between Anna Freudand Melanie Klein -- Equating of spontaneous play with free association -- The superego -- The Oedipus complex -- Countertransference -- Working together with the parents -- A clinical example: Monica -- CHAPTER FOUR: Adolescence -- CHAPTER FIVE: The significance of child analysis for adult analysis -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.
Abstract:
The central theme of this book is concerned with the controversies on technique between Anna Freud and Melanie Klein in the 1920s and 1930s, and with a clear differentiation between child analysis proper and analytical child psychotherapy. Alex Holder takes into account the historic background in which child psychoanalysis developed, especially World War II and the Nazi regime in Germany. The author also looks at the way child psychoanalysis developed in specific institutions, such as the Hampstead Child Therapy Course in London, and in specific areas, such as the spread of child analysis in the US. The concluding chapter is on the importance of knowledge of child analysis among psychoanalysts working with adults. The differences in the theories of the two "greats" in child analysis, Anna Freud and Melanie Klein, are examined one by one, including such concepts as the role of transference, the Oedipus complex and the superego.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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