Hanna Segal
Hanna Segal was born in Poland in August 1918 and studied medicine in Warsaw and Paris before qualifying at the Polish Medical School in Edinburgh in 1943. She became a psychoanalyst four years later, having trained under Melanie Klein, with Paula Heimann and Joan Riviere as her first supervisors. Dr Segal then qualified in child analysis and afterwards became a training analyst in the British Psychoanalytical Society in 1951-52. She also served as President of the British Society and Vice-President of the International Psychoanalytical Association. She was a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatry, and was also Visiting Professor of the Freud Memorial Chair, University College, London. Her publications include Klein (1979), The Work of Hanna Segal (1981), Introduction to the Work of Melanie Klein (1988) and Dream, Phantasy and Art (1990).
Psychoanalysis, Literature and War: Papers 1972-1995
This collection of writings by Hanna Segal shows how the same conflicts between life and death instincts, phantasy and reality, are experienced in the consulting room, reflected in literature, and... (more)
Introduction to the Work of Melanie Klein
A most lucid and comprehensive introduction to Kleinian theories from one of the leading contemporary Kleinian analysts, including new chapters on her early work and on technique. This is a reprint... (more)
The Work of Hanna Segal: A Kleinian Approach to Clinical Practice
A selection of Hanna Segal's work from 1950 to 1978. (more)
Dream, Phantasy and Art
Symbolism, aesthetics, dreams, and psychotic thinking are explored by Segal, who integrates the ideas of Freud, Klein and Bion.
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Presenting a selection of the author's recent papers, this collection covers a wide spectrum of insights into psychoanalysis, ranging from current thoughts on the nature of dreaming to the psychotic... (more)
