Listening to Hanna Segal

Her Contribution to Psychoanalysis

How has Hanna Segal influenced psychoanalysis today? Jean-Michel Quinodoz provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of Segal's life, her clinical and theoretical work, and her contribution to psychoanalysis over the past sixty years by combining actual biographical and conceptual interviews with Hanna Segal herself or with colleagues who have listened to Segal in various contexts.

Segal's contributions in various fields of psychoanalysis include: the psychoanalytic treatment of psychotic patients, the introduction of the "symbolic equation", aesthetics and the creative impulse, the analysis of elderly patients, introducing the work of Melanie Klein. This clear summary of Hanna Segal's life and her contribution to psychoanalysis will be an essential guide to anyone studying Segal and her contemporaries.

Published by Routledge (London and New York)
New Library of Psychoanalysis Teaching Series (2007) - Pages: 184
ISBN: 978-0-415-44085-1