Reason and Passion: A Celebration of the Work of Hanna Segal

by David Bell

Overview

This book provides an account of Hanna Segal's contributions to psychoanalytic theory and practice and gives a picture of her as a person. It covers mainly on clinical and theoretical aspects of psychoanalysis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855759695
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/31/1997
Series:	Tavistock Clinic Series
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

David Bell is a training and supervising analyst at the British Psychoanalytic Society and consultant medical psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic. He is well-known as a teacher of psychoanalysis and for his publications on the theory of narcissism, the work of Bion, and the psychoanaltyic approach to serious mental illness. He has published Reason and Passion (jointly with Hanna Segal) and edited Psychoanalysis and Culture: A Kleinian Perspective, both published in the Tavistock Clinic Series.

Table of Contents

Preface — Foreword — Introductory Essay — Symbol Formation and Creativity — Unprovoked Assaults — Putting the Boot In — Meaning and Meaningfulness — Expiation As a Defence — On Remembering, Repeating and Working Through — Blocked Introjection/Blocked Incorporation — Enclaves and Excursions — ‘Where There Is No Vision’ — Select Bibliography of the Work of Hanna Segal

Editorial Reviews

'It is a passionate book and should be a good buy for any psychotherapist interested in Segal's work.' - Clinical Psychology Forum 132

'Each [chapter] is a worthwhile contribution that will give readers something to think about.Taken together, all the papers in the book make a fitting tribute to a towering figure in the evolution of Kleinian thought and a major contributor to the shaping of contemporary psuchoanalysis.' - Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

'Invaluable for situating Segal's work in its broader intellectual context.' - Critical and Cultural Theory

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