This bold and insightful book is the first to present the full work of highly influential British analyst, Herbert Rosenfeld.
This Contemporary Introduction covers all of Rosenfelds significant publications between 1947 and 1987, as well as the later edited version of his clinical seminars in Italy. Hinshelwood deftly shows how Rosenfeld adopted Melanie Klein's theories on schizoid mechanisms and psychotic psychodynamics and applied them to working with patients experiencing psychosis. He traces the use of these ideas in an evolving understanding of psychotic states and other forms of disturbance.
This book will be of interest to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists working with the development of Kleinian ideas. It will also be the perfect guide for students, mental health workers and psychotherapists who wish to know more about Rosenfelds approach to psychotic states.
Introduction: An outline for the reader Part 1: Research into difficult
problems
1. Mildred and features of psychotic states
2. Projective
identification and depersonalisation
3. Confusional states
4. Super-ego
5.
Negative narcissism
6. Borderline personalities
7. Other categories Part 2:
Clinical approach
8. Classically interpretive
9. Debates: Greenson and
Gitelson
10. Countertransference entanglements After-thoughts: reflections on
a life's work
Robert Hinshelwood is an English psychiatrist and academic. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Essex, UK. In 1984, he founded the British Journal of Psychotherapy and edited it for ten years, and founded the journal Psychoanalysis and History in 1999. He is the author of A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought (1989).
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