Bøger af Janet Sayers

Provides an introduction to psychoanalysis by retelling its story through art. This book begins with major founders of psychoanalysis - Freud, Jung Spielrein and Klein. It highlights the importance of psychoanalysis, together with painting and the visual arts, to understanding the centrality of visual imagery, fantasy, nightmares and dreams.

A Melanie Klein and her followers caused a revolution in psychology; this is the first book to bring together and describe their pioneering work. A The book is a highly engaging read, combining lively biographical sketches with psychoanalytic theory and patient case studies.

The author highlights the revolution wrought in both sexes' psychology by adolescence, particularly by its fantasies of divided selves and loves and of 'boy crazy' grandiosity and romance, arguing that men and women respond differently to the sexual awakening that takes place during their teens and to the memories of that part of their life.