Main description:

This set of papers, from members of the British Association of Psychotherapists, demonstrates the vitality of the 'Kleinian tradition' in work with adult patients. It is a picture of work from outside the inner circle of Kleinians in London. And it thus indicates how the concepts have fared in their transport into everyday psychotherapy.

Contents:

Introduction , Recollection and historical reconstruction , On the persistence of early loss and unresolved mourning , Interrelationships between internal and external factors in early development: current Kleinian thinking and implications for technique , "Turning a blind eye": misrepresentation and the denial of life events , Tolerating emotional knowledge , Psychoanalytic psychotherapy for chronic depression , Notes on a case of paedophilia , When is enough enough? The process of termination with an older patient