Robert
Hinshelwood * Susan Robinson * Oscar Zarate
THE
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Melanie
Klein was a pioneer in child psychoanalysis
who developed several ground-breaking concepts
about the nature and crucial importance of
the early stages of infantile development.
Although she was a devoted Freudian, many
of her ideas were seen within the psychoanalytic
movement as highly controversial, and this
led to heated conflicts, particularly with
Freud's daughter, Anna.
Introducing
Melanie Klein brilliantly explains Klein's
work, describing the startling discoveries
that raised such opposition at the time. Now
Klein's ideas are being recognised for their
explanatory power, and her concepts of the
depressive and paranoid-schizoid positions
are in common usage. Her work has become a
major influence in psychoanalysis and she
is also an important figure in many academic
fields within the human sciences.
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Robert
Hinshelwood is a psychoanalyst and Clinical
Director of the Cassel Hospital in London.
He founded the British Journal of Psychotherapy.
His other books include A Dictionary of Kleinian
Thought and Clinical Klein.
Susan
Robinson began work as a psychosocial nurse
at the Cassel Hospital in 1987, and since
1994 she has been the Head Nurse there.
Oscar Zarate is a highly acclaimed graphic
artist who has illustrated many Introducing
titles. His prize-winning graphic novel A
Small Killing is known throughout the world.
