Acknowledgements

About the Editors and Contributors

Introduction to the Book

I Historical Frame

Garvey, P. and Long, K. Melanie Klein: her main ideas and some theoretical and clinical developments

II Theory and Practice

Abel Hirsch, N. Some detail on Bion’s concept of container/contained

Bell, D. The Development of the Psychoanalytic Idea of Psychosis

Blass, R. The Teaching of Klein: Some Guidelines for Opening Students to the Heart of Kleinian Thinking and Practice

Brenman Pick, I. Lurching between longing and destruction

Brearley, M. The sense of self: generosity or narrow mindedness?

Britton, R. The mountains of primal grief

Cassorla, R. Dreams, Symbolization, Enactment

Clarkson, L. Autistic Features Encountered in the World of "As If"

Feldman, M. Responding to Narcissism

Frank, C. Getting to know splitting as an organizing unconscious

phantasy then and today

Mawson, C. The projective process and the two positions today

O’Shaughnessy, E. Reparation: Waiting for a concept

Paul, K. Mourning and the Development of Internal Objects

Pieczanski, A. Some thoughts on addiction and perversion in

psychoanalysis: theory and technique

Rocha Barros, E. Evolutions in Kleinian Inspired Clinical Practice

Roth, P. "I used to think you were wonderful": the persecution/idealization cycle of melancholia

Steiner, J. Illusion, Disillusion and Irony in Psychoanalysis

Weiss, H. Primitive reparation and the repetition compulsion in the

analysis of a borderline patient

Zeavin, L. The perfect is the enemy of the good: On idealization and

self-Idealization

III. Work with Children

Alvarez, A. Paranoid/schizoid position or paranoid and schizoid positions?

Jackson, J. Balancing on a Tightrope of Mania: a Precarious Normality

Rustin, M. Psychoanalytic work with an adopted child with a history of

early abuse and neglect

Williams, G. "At times when I see your face thinking, I am thinking as well": A Plea for an Organising Object

IV. Applied Contributions

Rockwell, S A Perfect Poem of Tears: Grieving as Depicted in Federico Garcia Lorca’s Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias

Rusbridger, R. Narcissism and ugliness in King Lear

Taffler, R. &

Eshraghi, A. Hedge Funds as Phantastic Objects: A Psychoanalytic

Perspective on Financial Innovations

Weintrobe, S. Communicating psychoanalytic ideas about climate change:

a case study