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In 1955, Mrs Klein and her colleagues published a notable volume New Directions in Psychoanalysis. The two books presently reviewed continue the process of reviewing Kleinian theory and technique since Mrs Klein's New Directions. They contain a feast of important and valuable, even historical papers, grouped round certain themes.
In Volume I, the four areas contained are: analysis of psychotic patients, projective identification, thinking, and pathological organisations. Each area is skilfully introduced and connected to the others by the Editor. In the second volume, which is mainly practice in psychoanalysis, the four areas traversed are: developments in technique, clinical papers on adult psychoanalysis, analysis of children, and application in other fields.
In these volumes one will find Segal's “Depression in the Schizophrenic” and “Notes on Symbol Formation”. Also Bion's “Attacks on Linking, Differentiation of the Psychotic from the Non-Psychotic Personalities” and “The Theory of Thinking”; Meltzer's “The Relation of Anal Masturbation to Projective Identification” and his paper on “Terror, Persecution and Dread”; and papers by Joseph, Brenman, Sohn, Rey and Steiner.
Similarly, in the second volume, is Bion's “Notes on Memory and Desire” from 1967, Money-Kyrle's 1956 paper on “Normal Countertransference and Some of Its Deviations” and Segal's 1950 paper on “Some Aspects of the Analysis of a Schizophrenic”. Volume II also develops Joseph's themes in her 1975 paper “The Patient Who Is Difficult To Reach” and her paper, ten years later, on “Transference — the Total Situation”. In the section on the analysis of children, one finds papers by Harris, Bick, O'Shaughnessy, and de Folch. The last four papers on “Applications of Kleinian Ideas in Other Fields of Work” has Jaques’ 1965 paper on “Death and the Mid-Life Crisis”, and Segal's paper on “William Golding”; Menzies-Lyth on “Social Institutions”; and Spillius on “Ceremony”.
Dr Herbert Rosenfeld has three papers in the