Publisher's Synopsis
This special issue of the journal "Psychoanalytic Inquiry" is devoted to Kleinian psychoanalysis as it is taught and practiced within the British Psychoanalytic Society. Contributors cover Kleinian perspectives on the development of defensive structures, and go on to address a variety of technical issues that involve transference/countertransference, and projective identification. Issue editor Helen Schoenhals writes of her experience of Kleinian supervision in Germany. These clinical papers are framed by Elizabeth Bott Spillius's overview of the evolution of Kleinian thought and Roy Schafer's commentary on the papers in this collection in the context of a critical comparison of the Kleinian and American ego-psychological traditions of psychoanalytic thought and practice.
