Reshaping the Psychoanalytic Domain: The Work of Melanie Klein, W.R.D. Fairbairn, and D.W. Winnicott - Hardcover

Hughes, Judith M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520064801 ISBN 13: 9780520064805

Publisher: University of California Press, 1989

Synopsis

Tracing the line of succession from Sigmund Freud, through Melanie Klein to Fairbairn and Winnicott, Judith Hughes demonstrates the internal development of the British school of psychoanalysis and the coherence of its legacy. Both lay reader and professional will find the book illuminating.

About this title

About the Author:

Judith M. Hughes is Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego.

Review:

"A lucid and remarkable book. The book reflects painstaking scholarship and a thorough knowledge of psychoanalytic theory. . . . She has made abtruse theory exciting, has shed a clarifying light on many confusing issues, and has succeeded in highlighting the differences and similarities of four great thinkers." -- Peter L. Giovacchini, MD, American Journal of Psychiatry

"The reader is led inside the laboratory of the psychoanalytic situation and provided an opportunity to see and assess how each of these leading figures in psychoanalysis grappled with new ideas in the process of theory formation. For those unconvinced about psychoanalysis this would be well worth reading and an opportunity to look and think again, as many critics tend to take their stance in relation to early Freudian paradigms." -- R. Cawthra, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

"There are insights from Dr. Hughes's considerable labor of great interest and utility for modern psychoanalysis. It may even be that she provides for us some lines of thought and syntheses from these three pioneers that might never have survived were it not for her enlivening them. . . . Perhaps from Hughes's thorough, painstaking study we can see how psychoanalysis may advance in the future." -- James L. Titchener, M.D. American Journal of Psychotherapy

"There is no more urgent need in psychoanalysis today than for greater dialogue between scholars and clinicians. . . . Judith M. Hughes, a professor of history at the University of California at San Diego, attempts to interweave a biographical, theoretical and clinical appraisal of the three 'protagonists' of her study. . . . Hughes's book is animated by the justified conviction that the British school of object-relations theory constitutes 'at once the soundest and the most thoroughgoing revision of Freud.' It is also excellently researched." -- Peter L. Rudnytsky, Times Literary Supplement

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0520064801
• ISBN 13: 9780520064805
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256