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. "Listening to Hanna Segal" explores both Segal's personal and professional histories, and the interaction between the two. The book opens with an auto-biographical account of Segal's life, from her birth in Poland to her analysis with Melanie Klein in London where she became the youngest member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Quinodoz goes on to explain Segal's contributions in various fields of psychoanalysis including: 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.