The Work of Hanna Segal: A Kleinian Approach to Clinical Practice (CLASSICAL PSYCHOANALYSIS AND ITS APPLICATIONS) - Hardcover

Segal, Hanna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0876684223 ISBN 13: 9780876684221

Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc., 1977

Synopsis

Segal establishes herself as one of the most productive and sensitive clinical psychoanalysts in the field today. Using techniques based on the work of both Freud and Klein, she shows a consistent interest in working with patients presenting the most severe type of psychopathology, as is evident in this volume of her clinical and theoretical papers.

About this title

About the Author:

Hanna Segal was born in Poland in August 1918 and studied medicine in Warsaw and Paris before qualifying at the Polish Medical School in Edinburgh in 1943. She became a psychoanalyst four years later, having trained under Melanie Klein, with Paula Heimann and Joan Riviere as her first supervisors. Dr Segal then qualified in child analysis and afterwards became a training analyst in the British Psychoanalytical Society in 1951-52. She also served as President of the British Society and Vice-President of the International Psychoanalytical Association. She was a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatry, and was also Visiting Professor of the Freud Memorial Chair, University College, London. Her publications include 'Klein' (1979), 'The Work of Hanna Segal' (1981), 'Introduction to the Work of Melanie Klein' (1988) and 'Dream, Phantasy and Art' (1990).

About this edition

• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0876684223
• ISBN 13: 9780876684221
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256