Imprisoned Pain and Its Transformation

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By Joan Symington

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Imprisoned Pain and Its Transformation honours Sydney Klein, a notable British psychoanalyst known internationally for his work on children, groups, psychosomatic illness, and various psychological conditions. The book is a collection of essays by clinicians influenced by Klein's ideas, exploring analysis as a method for understanding and transforming psychic pain. Contributions cover a spectrum of topics, including instinct organisation, projective identification, the envious superego, borderline children, and autism, showcasing the depth and clarity of Klein's impact on psychoanalysis.
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This volume is ideal for professionals and students in psychoanalysis and psychology, particularly those interested in the contemporary state of psychoanalytic thought and clinical practice.

This book is a festschrift for H. Sydney Klein, an eminent British Psychoanalyst whose work on such topics as children, groups, and autistic phenomena is known worldwide. It focuses on people in whom pain was not at first experienced as such but, rather, as some disabling behaviour or symptom.

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This book is a festschrift for Sydney Klein, an eminent British Psychoanalyst whose work on such topics as children, groups, psychosomatic illness, delinquent perversions, manic states, and autistic phenomena is known worldwide. His thinking reflects the work of Melanie Klein and Wilfred Bion, as well as that of other eminent writers, such as Frances Tustin.

In this volume, clinicians from a wide range of backgrounds reflect on the debt they owe to his work, and in particular on the idea of analysis as a means for understanding and transforming psychic pain. The papers cover a wide range of topics, from theoretical papers to detailed clinical discussions.

Edna O'Shaughnessy discusses the anal organization of the instincts, Michael Feldman writes on projective identification, Leslie Sohn on the envious superego, Anne Alvarez on work with borderline children, and Mauro Maura on autism. In these and the other contributions, readers will find a depth of experience and clarity of thought reflecting amply Sydney Klein's contribution to psychoanalysis.

Imprisoned Pain and Its Transformation is invaluable for anyone concerned with the state of psychoanalysis today.

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ISBN: 9781855752436

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 October 2000

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Karnac Books

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 147.0mm

Height: 230.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 256

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About the Author

Joan Symington is a child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. She was consultant Child Psychiatrist at the Royal Free Hospital, London, for ten years. Having trained at the British Psycho-Analytic Association, she now works in Sydney and is a training analyst of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society. She has published articles on infant observation and psychoanalysis and she is the co-author with her husband Neville of the book 'The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion'.