The Clinical Paradigms of Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott: Comparisons and Dialogues

257 Pages·2017·8.39 MB·English

by  Jan Abram

The Clinical Paradigms of
MELANIE KLEIN
and
DONALD WINNICOTT
The Clinical Paradigms of Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott: Comparisons and
Dialogues seeks to introduce the distinctive psychoanalytic basic principles of
both Klein and Winnicott, to compare and contrast the way in which their
concepts evolved, and to show how their different approaches contribute
to distinctive psychoanalytic paradigms. The aim is twofold – to introduce
and to prompt research.
The book consists of five main parts each with two chapters, one each by
Abram and Hinshelwood, that describe the views of Klein and of Winnicott
on five chosen issues:
• Basic principles
• Early psychic development
• The role of the external object
• The psychoanalytic concept of psychic pain
• Practice and theory
Each of the five parts concludes with a dialogue between the authors on
the topic of the part.
The Clinical Paradigms of Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott: Comparisons and
Dialogues will appeal to those who are being introduced to psychoanalytic
ideas and especially to British Object Relations. It will also appeal to those
experienced psychoanalysts who wish to develop an understanding of
how the conceptualisations of these two schools might be compared and
contrasted.
Jan Abram is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the British Psycho­
analytical Society. She is the author of many publications, including: The
Language of Winnicott (1st edition 1996, awarded Outstanding Academic
Book of the Year 1997 and a Classic Book P.E.P.) and editor of Donald Winni­
cott Today (Routledge, 2013). She was a Visiting Professor of the Centre for
Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex (2011–2013) and University
of Kyoto, Japan (2016). Currently she is Visiting Professor for the Psycho­
analysis Unit, University College London, and a Visiting Lecturer for the
Tavistock Clinic, London.
R. D. Hinshelwood is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society;
previously Director of the Cassel Hospital, and Professor at the University
of Essex (now Emeritus). He has written extensively on Kleinian psycho­
analysis, including A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought (1989) and Clinical Klein
(1993). He has taken an interest in and published on the problems of making
evidenced comparisons between different psychoanalytic schools.
Jan Abram & R. D. Hinshelwood
in dialogue at the 2nd Klein/Winnicott Conference
on 21 November 2015, Warsaw, Poland
The Clinical Paradigms of
MELANIE KLEIN
and
DONALD WINNICOTT
Comparisons and Dialogues
Jan Abram & R. D. Hinshelwood
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To those who have taught us and to those we have taught
and
for all those who have engaged in this project
on dialogues and comparisons, at home and abroad

CONTENTS
acknowledgements xi
about the authors xiii
preface xvii
biographical notes and chronologies xxi
Introduction 1
part I
Basic principles 9
1 Melanie Klein
R. D. Hinshelwood 11
2 Donald Winnicott
Jan Abram 19
Summary 26
Dialogue 29
vii
viii contents
part II
Early psychic development 39
3 The Kleinian baby
R. D. Hinshelwood 41
4 The Winnicottian babies
Jan Abram 46
Summary 51
Dialogue 54
part III
The role of the external object 67
5 Anxiety and phantasy
R. D. Hinshelwood 69
6 The environment–individual set­up
Jan Abram 76
Summary 83
Dialogue 84
part IV
The psychoanalytic concept of psychic pain 95
7 Melanie Klein and internal anxiety
R. D. Hinshelwood 97
8 Donald Winnicott’s concept
of aggression
Jan Abram 104
Summary 108
Dialogue 109
contents ix
part V
Practice and theory 133
9 Whose reality? Whose experience?
R. D. Hinshelwood 135
10 Holding
and the mutative interpretation
Jan Abram 141
Summary 148
Dialogue 149
appendix 177
glossary 182
Afterword 207
references 209
index 219