Lectures on Technique by Melanie Klein: Edited with Critical Review by John Steiner [Paperback]

Foreword by Michael Feldman

Part 1 Introduction, Outline and Critical Review of Kleins Lectures and Seminars on Technique

Part 2 The Lectures on Technique, 1936

Introduction

Lecture 1: Guiding Principles

Lecture 2: Aspects of the Transference Situation

Lecture 3: Transference and Interpretation

Lecture 4: Clinical Illustration of Transference and Interpretation

Lecture 5: Experiences and Phantasy

Lecture 6: The Analysis of Grievances

Part 3 The Seminars on Technique, 1958

Appendix A List of Patients

Appendix B Lecture 5 Verbatim from the Archive

Lectures on Technique by Melanie Klein is based on a series of six lectures given by Melanie Klein to students at the British Psychoanalytical Society in 1936 and repeated several times in subsequent years. They were discovered in the Melanie Klein Archives housed in the Wellcome Medical Library and have been previously described by Elizabeth Spillius but never before published. In this book, John Steiner explores what characterises Kleinian Technique, how her technique changed over the years, what she saw as the correct psychoanalytical attitude and how psychoanalytic technique has changed since Kleins death.

Melanie Klein, who moved to England from Berlin in 1927, became one of the leading psychoanalysts, following Freud and making an important contribution in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. A pioneer in child analysis, her work remains widely influential throughout thel: