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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-274) and index.;Machine generated contents note: ch. One Melanie Klein, like Moses on the way to the Promised Land: a case of pathological mourning -- ch. Two Melanie Klein's creative writing revealing themes in her life and theorising -- ch. Three The phenomenological theory stands on its own: death instinct as demon lover -- ch. Four Explicating and utilising the phenomenological theory -- ch. Five Developmental evolution within the theory of Melanie Klein -- ch. Six Developmental evolution within the works of Donald W. Winnicott: psychic and transitional space -- ch. Seven Dynamics of transitional space: pathological foreclosure vs. expansion in clinical treatment -- ch. Eight Winnicott's contribution to the understanding of mirroring as a developmental process: the Klein--Winnicott dialectic within -- ch. Nine Narcissistic mirroring as perversion of developmental mourning -- ch. Ten Loneliness in dialectic with solitude. This book brings together the theories of Melanie Klein and Donald W. Winnicott, two giants and geniuses of the British school of object relations clinical and developmental theory and psychoanalytic technique. In this book, Dr Kavaler-Adler attempts to integrate the theories of Klein and Winnicott, rather than polarising them, as has been done often in the past. This book takes the best of Klein and Winnicott for use by clinicians on an everyday basis, without having the disputes between their followers interfere with the full and rich platter of theoretical offerings they each of them provided. In addition, this book looks at the biographies of Klein and Winnicott, to show how their theories were inspired by their contrasting lives and contrasting parenting and developmental dynamics. By examining their theories in relation to their biographies, one can see why their dialectical theoretical focuses emerged, highly contrasted in their major emphasis, and yet highly complementary when applied together to clinical work. This is a very new perspective.
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The Klein-Winnicott Dialectic: Transformative New Metapsychology and Interactive Clinical Theory brings together the theories of Melanie Klein and Donald W. Winnicott, two giants and geniuses of the British school of object relations clinical and developmental theory and psychoanalytic technique. In this book, The author attempts to integrate the theories of Klein and Winnicott, rather than polarising them, as has been done often in the past. This book takes the best of Klein and Winnicott for use by clinicians on an everyday basis, without having the disputes between their followers interfere with the full and rich platter of theoretical offerings they each of them provided.In addition, this book looks at the biographies of Klein and Winnicott, to show how their theories were inspired by their contrasting lives and contrasting parenting and developmental dynamics. By examining their theories in relation to their biographies, one can see why their dialectical theoretical focuses emerged, highly contrasted in their major emphasis, and yet highly complementary when applied together to clinical work.