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

Melanie Klein's Lectures on Technique 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 Elisabeth 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 also how psychoanalytic technique has changed since Klein's death.

Author: Melanie Klein
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 01/20/2017
Pages: 148
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781138940109

About the Author

John Steiner is a training analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society who is retired from his analytic practice but continues to supervise candidates, to conduct seminars and to write. He is the author of several psychoanalytic papers and two books: Psychic Retreats (1993) and Seeing and Being Seen (2011), both by Routledge. He has also edited and written introductions to The Oedipus Complex Today (1989), to Hanna Segal's Psychoanalysis, Literature and War (1997) and to Rosenfeld in Retrospect (2008).