Thesis (M.A. (Psychology)) - Rhodes University, 2009.

Reproduction de : Thèse de doctorat : Psychologie et psychologie clinique : Lyon 2 : 2002. / Titre provenant de l'écran-titre. Bibliogr.

Thesis (Ph.D.(Psychotherapy))-University of Pretoria, 2007. / Abstract in English. Includes bibliographical references. Available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.

The objective of psychobiography is a better understanding of individuals, and psychobiographical case studies add meaning and value to research (Runyan, 1988a). Melanie Klein was chosen for this study through a purposive sampling method due to her contributions to the discipline of psychology, which placed her in a distinguished position regarding twentieth century psychoanalysis. Furthermore, no other psychobiography has been written on Klein. The primary aim of this study was to present the reader with a basic description of her life, and a secondary aim was to accomplish an in-depth description of Klein within her social and historical context. Due to these aims and the nature of psychobiography, it may be said that this is a qualitative study based on a single case method, described as explorative and descriptive. Data was analysed according to Huberman and Miles’ (1994) approach which consists of data reduction, display and verification. This study was guided by Levinson’s (1996) theory of Adult Development in Women. The theory allowed for an in-depth description of Klein’s experiences and social and historical contexts by merely illuminating her life. Finally, it may be said that this study contributed to the limited amount of psychobiographical research in South Africa.

O presente trabalho visou à realização de uma análise teórica do modelo psicanalítico kleiniano com a finalidade de formular uma concepção de prevenção em saúde mental na infância. Buscou também avaliar a existência de concepções kleinianas que apontem para a prevenção primária, bem como elementos que corroborem a intervenção preventiva primária, em suas aplicações universal, seletiva e indicada. Foram formulados conceitos de saúde mental com base no modelo psicanalítico kleiniano, e analisadas as influências do processo de transformação do superego como precondição para a consolidação da saúde mental na infância. Sua viabilização se deu a partir de pesquisa teórica de livros, artigos científicos, e outras fontes de informação relacionadas às obras completas de Melanie Klein e aos escritos dos pós-kleinianos. A análise do material teórico contemplou as principais categorias conceituais da teoria kleiniana e enfatizou vértices que marcassem o encontro com as noções de prevenção e saúde mental. Conclui-se que o modelo kleiniano comporta a idéia de prevenção primária e reúne elementos para nortear intervenções preventivas universais, seletivas e indicadas. A saúde mental é definida como um estado fluido, influenciado por fatores quantitativos e qualitativos, e que se caracteriza pela resiliência e competência sócio-emocional. A transformação do superego arcaico em consciência moral é tida como essencial para o alcance da saúde mental, juntamente com a integração do ego. Por fim, com base em análise teórica do modelo kleiniano, e a partir do estudo da interação entre os fatores de risco e fatores protetivos, foi elaborada proposta inspirada na geometria cartesiana para aplicação em intervenção preventiva primária. Foram analisadas as implicações teóricas e éticas da aproximação entre a teoria psicanalítica e a abordagem preventiva. / The present work aimed at the theoretical analysis of the kleinian psychoanalytic model to formulate a conception of infant mental health prevention. Attempted also to evaluate the existence of kleinian conceptions directed towards primary prevention, as well as elements that corroborate the primary prevention intervention, in its universal, selected and indicated applications. Concepts of mental health were formulated, based on the kleinian psychoanalytic model, and the influences of the transforming process of the superego as precondition to the mental health consolidation in childhood were analyzed. Its viability was accomplished by theoretical research of books, scientific articles, and other sources related to Melanie Klein’s work. The analysis of the theoretical material contemplated the main conceptual categories of the kleinian theory and emphasized vertices the pointed out the meeting with notions of prevention and mental health. It was concluded that the kleinian model holds the idea of primary prevention and reunites elements to support universal, selective and indicated preventive intervention. Mental health is defined as a fluid state, influenced by quantitative and qualitative factors, and characterized by resilience and social-emotional competence. The transformation of the archaic superego in moral conscious is considered essential to the reaching of mental health, hand in hand with the integration of the ego. Finalizing, based on the theoretical analysis of the kleinian model, and the study of the interaction between risk factors and protective factors, a proposal inspired on Cartesian geometry applied in primary prevention intervention was elaborated. The theoretical and ethical implications of the approximation between the psychoanalytic theory and the preventive approach were examined.

O presente trabalho visou à realização de uma análise teórica do modelo psicanalítico kleiniano com a finalidade de formular uma concepção de prevenção em saúde mental na infância. Buscou também avaliar a existência de concepções kleinianas que apontem para a prevenção primária, bem como elementos que corroborem a intervenção preventiva primária, em suas aplicações universal, seletiva e indicada. Foram formulados conceitos de saúde mental com base no modelo psicanalítico kleiniano, e analisadas as influências do processo de transformação do superego como precondição para a consolidação da saúde mental na infância. Sua viabilização se deu a partir de pesquisa teórica de livros, artigos científicos, e outras fontes de informação relacionadas às obras completas de Melanie Klein e aos escritos dos pós-kleinianos. A análise do material teórico contemplou as principais categorias conceituais da teoria kleiniana e enfatizou vértices que marcassem o encontro com as noções de prevenção e saúde mental. Conclui-se que o modelo kleiniano comporta a idéia de prevenção primária e reúne elementos para nortear intervenções preventivas universais, seletivas e indicadas. A saúde mental é definida como um estado fluido, influenciado por fatores quantitativos e qualitativos, e que se caracteriza pela resiliência e competência sócio-emocional. A transformação do superego arcaico em consciência moral é tida como essencial para o alcance da saúde mental, juntamente com a integração do ego. Por fim, com base em análise teórica do modelo kleiniano, e a partir do estudo da interação entre os fatores de risco e fatores protetivos, foi elaborada proposta inspirada na geometria cartesiana para aplicação em intervenção preventiva primária. Foram analisadas as implicações teóricas e éticas da aproximação entre a teoria psicanalítica e a abordagem preventiva. / The present work aimed at the theoretical analysis of the kleinian psychoanalytic model to formulate a conception of infant mental health prevention. Attempted also to evaluate the existence of kleinian conceptions directed towards primary prevention, as well as elements that corroborate the primary prevention intervention, in its universal, selected and indicated applications. Concepts of mental health were formulated, based on the kleinian psychoanalytic model, and the influences of the transforming process of the superego as precondition to the mental health consolidation in childhood were analyzed. Its viability was accomplished by theoretical research of books, scientific articles, and other sources related to Melanie Klein’s work. The analysis of the theoretical material contemplated the main conceptual categories of the kleinian theory and emphasized vertices the pointed out the meeting with notions of prevention and mental health. It was concluded that the kleinian model holds the idea of primary prevention and reunites elements to support universal, selective and indicated preventive intervention. Mental health is defined as a fluid state, influenced by quantitative and qualitative factors, and characterized by resilience and social-emotional competence. The transformation of the archaic superego in moral conscious is considered essential to the reaching of mental health, hand in hand with the integration of the ego. Finalizing, based on the theoretical analysis of the kleinian model, and the study of the interaction between risk factors and protective factors, a proposal inspired on Cartesian geometry applied in primary prevention intervention was elaborated. The theoretical and ethical implications of the approximation between the psychoanalytic theory and the preventive approach were examined.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duquesne University, 2006. / Title from document title page. Abstract included in electronic submission form. Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-170) and index.

Linguistics has developed elaborate accounts of the <u>social</u> aspects of language use - 'how to do things with words' - but the <u>emotional-dynamic</u> aspects have hitherto received less attention. Such discussions of emotive or affective meaning as there have been have tended to concentrate on the linguistic resources that are coded into the language system, rather than the dynamics of emotional interaction enacted through language use. The clinical discipline of Kleinian psychoanalysis, by contrast, has made emotional dynamics its central concern. Furthermore the main tool of the psychoanalyst's trade is the verbal interpretation of the patient's material, much of which is itself verbal. These factors have led to the development in Kleinian psychodynamic theory of a particularly rich vocabulary for understanding emotional-dynamic interaction, and specifically those aspects which are verbally enacted. The goal of this thesis is to outline a linguistic theory of emotional dynamics based on insights derived from Kleinian psychoanalysis. It aims to extrapolate from a clinical context Kleinian ideas that can be integrated with those of the school of Linguistic thought that has emphasised the dynamic aspects of locally-managed discourse meaning.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-10T14:24:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2015-07-03. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2015-12-10T14:30:52Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000851870_20170724.pdf: 157646 bytes, checksum: fefb86b388549573557fda945fd76f8b (MD5) Bitstreams deleted on 2017-07-24T11:34:15Z: 000851870_20170724.pdf,. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2017-07-24T11:35:19Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000851870.pdf: 1115813 bytes, checksum: 6739cf6a848bd838586795d32f58e04e (MD5) / Este trabalho pretende compreender as transformações do tema feminilidade na obra de Melanie Klein e com isso traçar um percurso histórico e epistemológico sobre o significado desta temática para o pensamento desta autora. De modo específico, também, objetivamos discutir e problematizar como a noção da feminilidade pode oferecer uma maneira inovadora na forma de ler e compreender o texto kleiniano. Além disso, acreditamos que esse tema permitira pensar outras trilhas subjetivas na contemporaneidade, o que repercutiria, posteriormente, na forma de compreender a Psicanálise deslocada do eixo fálico. Isso porque, desde o início dessa pesquisa nos pautamos na ideia de que haveria, como é defendida por alguns autores contemporâneos da Psicanálise e que já havia sido refletido por Freud ao final de sua obra, a possibilidade de compreender modos de subjetivação fora do registro fálico, ou seja, anteriores à estrutura tradicional do complexo de Édipo e herança de nossa cultura Ocidental. Feminilidade, então, seria esse modo de subjetivação em um tempo psíquico muito primitivo da criança com sua mãe, o que permitiria articulações subjetivas diferenciadas / This work intends to understand the theme of femininity changes in the work of Melanie Klein and then trace a historical and epistemological route on the significance of this issue to the thought of this author. Specifically, we also aim to discuss and question how the notion of femininity can offer an innovative way in order to read and understand the Kleinian text. Despite that, we believe that this issue will allow other subjective tracks to come up in contemporary times, what repercussions later in the way of understanding psychoanalysis displaced the phallic trait. In other words, since the beginning of this research we were based on the idea that there would be, as is advocated by some contemporary authors of psychoanalysis and that had been reflected by Freud at the end of his work, the ability to understand modes of subjectivity out of phallic trait i.e. prior to the traditional structure of the Oedipus complex and heritage of our Western culture. Femininity, so it would be this subjectivity so in a very primitive psychic time of the child with his mother, which would allow different subjective joints

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Divinity School, December 2002. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.