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Selected Papers of Donald Meltzer Vol. 1 – Personality and Family Structure

Author: Donald Meltzer

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This new selection from the papers of Donald Meltzer spans his working life and serves as an introduction to all his key concepts, such as: aesthetic conflict, the claustrum, adhesive identification, thought disorder, the nature of symbol formation, and his revised theories of sexuality and dream life.

Volume 2 – Philosophy and History of Psychoanalysis

Volume 3 – The Psychoanalytic Process and the Analyst

Author

Donald Meltzer
ISBN

9781912567843
Format

Paperback, e-Book, Print & e-Book
Page Extent

192
Publication Date

February 2021
Subject Areas

Bionian Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis
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The contents of the three volumes are grouped not chronologically but under the headings of ‘Personality and Family Structure’, ‘Philosophy and History of Psychoanalysis’, and ‘The Psychoanalytic Process and the Analyst’. Together they present his interpretation of the ‘Kleinian development’ from Freud, through Abraham and Klein, to Bion and the post-Kleinian model; and within this evolution, his view of the natural history of the psychoanalytic process, the aesthetics of the method, and his insights into the operation of the transference and countertransference.
Meltzer saw the psychoanalytic process as a new method that contributes alongside more traditional art-forms to our scientific knowledge of the mind. Working with both adults and children, he viewed psychoanalysis in developmental rather than narrowly therapeutic terms, with potential for both analyst and analysand. All his theories derived from clinical work, above all from dream-reading and children’s phantasy play; and owing to his extensive international teaching experience, his own material was enriched by that of many supervisees. This collection of papers, read as a whole, invites new readers to follow and partake in what he called ‘the most interesting conversation in the world’.

Contents

Contents

1. The paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions (1974)
2. From pain-and-fear to love-and-pain (1973)
3. The consequences of Mrs Klein’s spatial revolution (1979)
4. Positive and negative forms (1970)
5. The aesthetic object (1984)
6. The evolution of object relations (1997)
7. A reverie on the baby’s interior preoccupation (2002)
8. Models of dependence in a family (1981)
9. Family patterns and modes of learning (1986)
10. Identification and socialisation in adolescence (1967)
11. Note on a transient inhibition of chewing (1959)
12. Repression, forgetting, and unfaithfulness (1974)
13. The role of pregenital confusions in erotomania (1974)
14. The relation of splitting of attention to splitting of self and objects (1981)
15. Adhesive identification (1974)
16. ‘Patches of blue’: the decline of the male (1998)
17. The architectonics of paranoia (1999)
18. Work, play and sublimation (1973)
19. Intrusive identification and the claustrum (1990)

About the Author

About the Author

Donald Meltzer (1923–2004) was born in New York and studied medicine at Yale. After practising as a psychiatrist specialising in children and families, he moved to England to have analysis with Melanie Klein in the 1950s, and for some years was a training analyst with the British Society. He worked with both adults and children, and was innovative in the treatment of autistic children; in the treatment of children he worked closely with Esther Bick and Martha Harris whom he later married. He taught child psychiatry and psychoanalytic history at the Tavistock Clinic. He also took a special scholarly interest in art and aesthetics, based on a lifelong love of art. Meltzer taught widely and regularly in many countries, in Europe, Scandinavia, and North and South America, and his books have been published in many languages and continue to be increasingly influential in the teaching of psychoanalysis.
His first book, The Psychoanalytical Process, was published by Heinemann in 1967 and was received with some suspicion (like all his books) by the psychoanalytic establishment. Subsequent books were published by Clunie Press for the Roland Harris Educational Trust which he set up together with Martha Harris (now the Harris Meltzer Trust). The Process was followed by Sexual States of Mind in 1973, Explorations in Autism in 1975; The Kleinian Development in 1978 (his lectures on Freud, Klein and Bion given to students at the Tavistock); Dream Life in 1984; The Apprehension of Beauty in 1988 (with Meg Harris Williams); and The Claustrum in 1992.

1 review for Selected Papers of Donald Meltzer Vol. 1 – Personality and Family Structure

  1. Virginia Ungar, IPA President –

    Meltzer’s optimism about the human spirit holds all of us who choose to engage in the task of holding “the most interesting conversation in the world” in the consulting room and in the different settings we inhabit.

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