New Center for Psychoanalysis

This event addresses: James Grotstein’s work in comparative psychoanalytic theory

Klein’s Analytic Technique

Professor Robert Hinshelwood, MD — Professor Emeritus of University of Essex; Member, British Psychoanalytical Society; Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, London, UK

In the final part of our series, Robert Hinshelwood takes us back to Klein’s original psychoanalytic technique with children and adults—and establishes how she innovated analytic technique by reversing Freud’s emphasis on reconstructing the infantile/conflictual past of his patients as based on their adult psychopathology. Klein instead emphasized early infantile mechanisms of projection and defense—and how they informed the subsequent pathology of the mature patient.

In the third hour of this presentation, Hinshelwood makes comparison between Klein, Winnicott and Bion, attempting to tease out what the substantive differences were between these three analytic pioneers in terms of technique.