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INTRODUCE TOPIC

I introduce projection, how crazy babies are, and why wouldn't they be? I encourage students to think how tough it is to be a baby. For example, you don't even know what a breast is; you don't even know it's a something. It could be lots of something, some good, some bad. etc.

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I have not found any way to get students to accept Melanie Klein's ideas. I used to try and it continued to be an area that kept students feeling a level of skepticism about psychoanalytic psychology that I wanted to overcome, so I no longer teach Klein at all.

Rhonda Reinholtz, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist, Lecturer
University of Wisconsin-Madison
rreinholtz@wisc.edu

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

Hinshelwood, R. & Robinson. S. (1997). Introducing Melanie Klein, 3e. Cambridge: Icon Books Ltd.

Hinshelwood, R. D. (1993). A Dictionary of Kleinain Thought, 2e. Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson.

Monte. C. F. & Sollod, R. N. (2003). Beneath the Mask: An Introduction to Theories of Personality. New York: Wiley.

Solomon, I. (1995). A Primer of Kleinian Therapy. Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson.


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