The original concepts of Melanie Klein and Wilfred Bion have had a profound andcontinuing effect on the practice of psychoanalysis. The aim of this book is topr... » 

The original concepts of Melanie Klein and Wilfred Bion have had a profound andcontinuing effect on the practice of psychoanalysis. The aim of this book is topresent some of their most basic ideas as simply as possible to the reader andto show by clinical example these ideas at work in contemporary analysis.Individual analysts contribute chapters on child analysis the concept ofunconscious phantasy projective identification the paranoidschizoid anddepressive positions psychotic thinking the relation between the containerand contained and the idea of reversible perspective in understanding as ifpersonalities. «