Table of Contents

Series foreword by Peter Fonagy and Mary Target vii

Acknowledgements ix

List of contributors xi

Introduction  xv

Chapter 1 Melanie Klein: beginnings 1
Catalina Bronstein

Chapter 2 Freud and Klein on the concept of phantasy 17
Elizabeth Bott Spillius

Chapter 3 The paranoid-schizoid position 32
Priscilla Roth

Chapter 4 The depressive position 47
Jane Temperley

Chapter 5 Beyond the depressive position: Ps (n +1) 63
Ronald Britton

Chapter 6 The Oedipus Complex 77
Jill Boswell

Chapter 7 Envy and gratitude 93
Marco Chiesa

Chapters 8 What are internal objects? 108

Catalina Bronstein

Chapter 9 Projective identification 125
David Bell

Chapter 10 Symbolization 148
Hanna Segal

Chapter 11 Changing models of the mind 157
Hanna Segal

Chapter 12 Bion’s theory of containment 165
Ruth Riesenberg-Malcolm

Chapter 13 Transference 181
Betty Joseph

References 193

Index 203

About the Author

Cathy Bronstein is the author of Kleinian Theory: A Contemporary Perspective, published by Wiley.