Reason and Passion
Subtitle: A Celebration of the Work of Hanna Segal (Tavistock Clinic Series)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: July 14, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780415920759
First sentence: Melanie Klein's paper on 'The Importance of Symbol Formation in the Development of the Ego', published in 1930, was a milestone in two respects: first, it opened up the study of symbolisation as a creative and developmental process, and second, it showed how abnormalities in the ability to form symbols could cripple the development of the ego.