| Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and the Psychoanalysis of Children and Adolescents Contributor(s): Holder, Alex (Author) |
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ISBN: 0367105497 ISBN-13: 9780367105495 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $178.13 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Developmental - Child - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Psychology | Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent |
| Dewey: 618.928 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.95 lbs) 216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The central theme of this book is concerned with the controversies on technique between Anna Freud and Melanie Klein in the 1920s and 1930s, and with a clear differentiation between child analysis proper and analytical child psychotherapy. Alex Holder takes into account the historic background in which child psychoanalysis developed, especially World War II and the Nazi regime in Germany. The author also looks at the way child psychoanalysis developed in specific institutions, such as the Hampstead Child Therapy Course in London, and in specific areas, such as the spread of child analysis in the US. The concluding chapter is on the importance of knowledge of child analysis among psychoanalysts working with adults. The differences in the theories of the two greats in child analysis, Anna Freud and Melanie Klein, are examined one by one, including such concepts as the role of transference, the Oedipus complex and the superego. |
Contributor Bio(s): Holder, Alex: - Alex Holder trained as a child analyst in London at the Anna Freud Centre and as a psychoanalyst for adults at the British Psychoanalytical Society. He is a member, training analyst and supervisor of the German Psychoanalytical Association and the former head of the Department for Analytic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy at the Michael Balint Institute in Hamburg and Editor of the Bulletin of the European Psychoanalytical Federation. For the last few years, he has been Editor of International Psychoanalysis, the News Magazine of the International Psychoanalytical Association. |