Melanie Klein A Contemporary Introduction

'It is the depth and clarity of this account of the work of Melanie Klein that will impress professional analysts, psychotherapists, as well as the curious general reader. They will find readily accessible descriptions and explanations of many of the basic concepts of psychoanalysis - internal objects, splitting, projective identification, introjection, and pathological organisations, and learn how important processes such as mourning lead to changes in the super-ego which enable arrested development to resume.

Even experienced psychoanalyst will be impressed to find old concepts presented in new ways, often amply illustrated with clinical material, sometimes from Klein and sometimes from Garvey's own work.

This book is a major contribution to the definition of Klein's place among the pioneers of psychoanalysis.'

John Steiner, Training analyst British Psychoanalytical Society, author of Psychic Retreats, Seeing and Being Seen, Illusion, Disillusion and Irony in Psychoanalysis