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1. Projective Identification

   The Fate of a Concept

   Edited by Elizabeth Spillius, Edna O'Shaughnessy

   Series: The New Library of Psychoanalysis

   In this book Elizabeth Spillius and Edna O'Shaughnessy explore the development of the concept of projective identification, which had important antecedents in the work of Freud and others, but was given a specific name and definition by Melanie Klein. They describe Klein's published and unpublished...

   Published October 25th 2011 by Routledge
2. The New Dictionary of Kleinian Thought

   By Elizabeth Bott Spillius, Jane Milton, Penelope Garvey, Cyril Couve, Deborah Steiner

   The New Dictionary of Kleinian Thought provides a comprehensive and wholly accessible exposition of Kleinian ideas. Offering a thorough update of R.D. Hinshelwood’s highly acclaimed original, this book draws on the many developments in the field of Kleinian theory and practice since its publication...

   Published March 8th 2011 by Routledge
3. Melanie Klein in Berlin

   Her First Psychoanalyses of Children

   By Claudia Frank

   Edited by Elizabeth Spillius

   Series: The New Library of Psychoanalysis

   In this book Claudia Frank discusses how Melanie Klein began to develop her psychoanalysis of children. Melanie Klein in Berlin: Her First Psychoanalyses of Children offers a detailed comparative analysis of both published and unpublished material from the Melanie Klein Archives. By using...

   Published March 16th 2009 by Routledge
4. Family and Social Network

   Roles, Norms and External Relationships in Ordinary Urban Families

   Edited by Elizabeth Bott Spillius

   Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have...

   Published October 9th 2008 by Routledge
5. Encounters with Melanie Klein

   Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius

   By Elizabeth Spillius

   Edited by Priscilla Roth, Richard Rusbridger

   Series: The New Library of Psychoanalysis

   In Encounters with Melanie Klein: Selected Papers of Elizabeth Spillius the author argues that her two professions, anthropology and psychoanalysis, have much in common, and explains how her background in anthropology led her on to a profound involvement in psychoanalysis and her establishment as a...

   Published June 20th 2007 by Routledge
6. Psychic Equilibrium and Psychic Change

   Selected Papers of Betty Joseph

   Edited by Michael Feldman, Elizabeth Bott Spillius

   Series: The New Library of Psychoanalysis

   Betty Joseph's work has become an outstanding influence in the development and theory of psychoanalytic technique in the Kleinian tradition. This collection of her most important papers examines the development of her thought and shows why a crucial part of her theory and practice is concerned with...

   Published September 6th 1989 by Routledge
7. Melanie Klein Today, Volume 2: Mainly Practice

   Developments in Theory and Practice

   Edited by Elizabeth Bott Spillius

   Series: The New Library of Psychoanalysis

   Although both Kleinian psychoanalysts and their critics take it for granted that there is a therapeutic technique distinctive to the Kleinian approach, comparatively little has been written about what it is. In Melanie Klein Today, Volume 2, Elizabeth Bott Spillius brings together classic and new...

   Published November 30th 1988 by Routledge
8. Melanie Klein Today, Volume 1: Mainly Theory

   Developments in Theory and Practice

   Edited by Elizabeth Bott Spillius

   Series: The New Library of Psychoanalysis

   Melanie Klein Today, Volume 1 is the first of two volumes of collected essays devoted to developments in psychoanalysis based on the work of Melanie Klein. The papers are arranged into four groups: the analysis of psychotic patients, projective identification, on thinking, and pathalogical...

   Published April 27th 1988 by Routledge