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The Aesthetic Development: the poetic spirit of psychoanalysis  Essays on Bion, Meltzer, Keats.  Karnac, 2010.

 

Bion’s Dream: a reading of the autobiographies  Karnac, 2010.

 

The Vale of Soulmaking: the post-Kleinian model of the mind  Poetic origins of the psychoanalytic model. Karnac, 2005.

 

A Trial of Faith: Horatio’s Story   A novel based on Hamlet in the form of a psychoanalytic history. Karnac, 1997.

     Translated into Spanish by Crispina Sanders (available via this website). See also “The Process into Fiction”.

 

Five Tales from Shakespeare FOR CHILDREN. Clunie Press, 1996. Available from this website, price £7.99. See also “Bringing Shakespeare to the Child”.

 

The Chamber of Maiden Thought: literary origins of the psychoanalytic model of the mind (with Margot Waddell). Routledge 1991.

      Chapters on Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats and Bronte. Out of print; available on Amazon. Published in Italian by Di Renzo, 1996.         Chapters reprinted in Psychoanalysis and Art: Kleinian perspectives edited by Sandra Gosso.

 

The Apprehension of Beauty: the role of aesthetic conflict in development, art and violence (with Donald Meltzer). Clunie Press, 1988, reprinted Harris Meltzer Trust, 2008.

     Chapters on Hamlet, poetry appreciation, Turner and Adrian Stokes. Chapters reprinted in Psychoanalysis and Art: Kleinian perspectives edited by Sandra Gosso. Published in French (editions du Hublot) Italian (Borla) and German (Diskord).

 

A Strange Way of Killing: Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights  Clunie Press, 1987.

      Chapter on “Wuthering Heights and Catastrophic Change” translated into Spanish by Silvia Grunwald and Miriam Botbol (available via this site).

 

Inspiration in Milton and Keats  Macmillan, 1982. Out of print; available on Amazon. Some sections reprinted in The Aesthetic Development.

 

 

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The Story of Infant Development by Romana Negri and Martha Harris. Harris Meltzer Trust, 2007.

 

Your Teenager by Martha Harris. Harris Meltzer Trust, 2007.  See “Martha Harris’ philosophy of education”.

 

Linguistic Transformations in Romantic Aesthetics by Morag Harris (ed. with Morton Paley). Mellen Press, 2002. Morag Harris’s book Emily Dickinson in Time: experience and its analysis in verbal form is published by Karnac (1999).

 

Collected Papers of Martha Harris and Esther Bick  Clunie Press, 1987.

 

Poetry for You by Roland Harris (ed. with Morag Harris and Paul Cheetham). FOR SCHOOLS. (Hutchinson, 1986; reprinted Nelson Thornes 2004). Available on Amazon. Some copies available via this website.

 

 

            P a p e r s   a n d   C h a p t e r s   i n   B o o k s  click on title

 

An Introduction to Meltzer  Transcript of talks given in autumn 2009. For more talks click here

 

Psychoanalysis as an art form British Journal of Psychotherapy, 25.3,  August 2009, pp. 381-92.

 

The hieroglyphics of Catherine: Emily Bronte and the Musical Matrix in The Brontes in the World of the Arts,  ed. Sandra Hagan and Juliette Wells (Ashgate, 2008), pp. 81-100.

 

A Post-Kleinian model of aesthetic criticism Psy-Art: an online journal for the psychological study of the arts (2008).

 

The role of incantation: life drawing as an analogue to psychoanalytic process The Psychoanalytic Review, Guilford Press, Vol 95 (3), June 2008, pp. 463-74.

 

Inauguration of the Harris Meltzer Trust: Your Teenager and The Story of Infant Development Karnac Review, summer 2007 p. 20.

 

Introduction to Poesie et Psychanalyse by Arthur Hyatt Williams, transl. David Alcorn. Editions du Hublot, 2005. On Keats and Coleridge. In French; English original version available via this website.

 

The three vertices: science, art and religion  British Journal of Psychotherapy 21.3, spring 2005, pp. 429-41.

 

Conversations with internal objects: family and narrative structure in Homer’s Odyssey British Journal of Psychotherapy, 20.2, winter 2003 pp. 219-35.

 

Discovering symbolic identity through life-drawing  Paper given at ‘Children in Troubled Worlds’ conference, Oxford, 2004). Published in Portuguese in Revista de Psicanalise, XI, December 2004). Related article: “The role of incantation” .

 

Beauty versus Honesty in Othello Paper given at Florence conference February 2000; unpublished in English.  

 

Keats’s “Ode to Psyche” in Exploring the Work of Donald Meltzer, ed. M. Cohen and A. Hahn. Karnac, 2000. Translated into Spanish by Miriam Botbol and Silvia Grunwald (available via this site). Expanded in The Vale of Soulmaking.

 

Psychoanalysis: an art or a science? British Journal of Psychotherapy 16. 2, 1999. Translated into Spanish by Miriam Botbol and Silvia Grunwald (available via this site).

 

The Aesthetic Perspective in the Work of Donald Meltzer Journal of Melanie Klein and Object Relations 1998, 16(2), pp. 209-18. Translated into Spanish by Miriam Botbol and Silvia Grunwald (available via this site).

 

The “Process” into fiction   An account of how A Trial of Faith was written.  Journal of Melanie Klein and Object Relations 1998, 16(2), pp. 219-24.

 

Emotional problems of thinking with literature Changes: International Journal of Psychology and Psychotherapy  autumn 1998, pp. 201-05.

 

Inspiration: a psychoanalytic and aesthetic concept British Journal of Psychotherapy 14.1, September 1997, pp. 33-43

 

“Inspiration” and “Imagination” in Paesaggi della Mente edited by Sandra Gosso. In Italian (Milan: Francoangeli, 1997).

 

Bringing Shakespeare to the Child (1995). Paper on the problems of introducing Shakespeare to young children, written to accompany  Five Tales from Shakespeare. Given at a teachers’ conference in Malmo, Sweden, and published in Methods of Art as Paths to Knowledge (Lund University, 1995), ed. R. Berg and M. Campart, pp. 5-84. Translated into Spanish by Miriam Botbol and Silvia Grunwald (available via this site).

 

A Man of Achievement: Sophocles' Oedipus plays British Journal of Psychotherapy 11.2, winter 1994, pp. 232-41.  Paper given at a conference in Genoa in March 1994.

 

The Ugly Duckling a short story about a premature infant, in Romana Negri's neuropsychiatric study The Newborn in the Intensive Care Unit (Karnac, 1994), Also reprinted in Journal of Melanie Klein and Object Relations 1998, 16(2).

 

Confessions of an emmature superego (written 1993).  A verse narrative based on Bion’s autobiographies written for and performed by Alaknanda Samarth.  Published in The Vale of Soulmaking..

 

Macbeth’s equivocation, Shakespeare’s ambiguity in The Claustrum by Donald Meltzer. Clunie Press, 1992, reprinted Harris Meltzer Trust, 2008), pp. 159-85. Published in French (Hublot,) Italian (Cortina) and German (Diskord).

 

Looking with the mind: psychoanalysis and literature   Encounter, 74, May 1990, pp. 33-38.

 

Book Magic: Aesthetic Conflicts in Charlotte Bronte’s Juvenilia  Nineteenth Century Literature 42.1, 1987, pp. 29-45. Reprinted in A Strange  Way of Killing..

 

Knowing the Mystery: against reductionism Encounter 67, June 1986, pp. 48-53.  A statement about psychoanalytic literary criticism.

 

The Tiger and “O''  Free Associations 1, 1985, pp. 33-55.  An essay relating Bion’s dream-imagery to his theory of knowledge.

 

Bion's The Long Week-End: a review article  Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 9, June 1983, pp. 69-79.  First published review of Bion’s autobiography of his early years. Reprinted in Bion’s Dream (2010, see above).

 

“Underlying Pattern” in Bion's Memoir of the Future International Review of Psycho-Analysis, 10.75, March 1983, pp. 75-86 .  On the artistic preoccupations of Bion’s phantasy-autobiography. Reprinted in Bion Today, ed. C. Mawson (Routledge, 2010).

 

 

       R e v i e w s

 

Mirroring and Attunement: self-realization in psychoanalysis and art by Kenneth Wright (Routledge, 2009). In Journal of Psychodynamic Practice (2010)

 

Axis Mundi by Eric Rhode (Apex One, 2008). In British Journal of Psychotherapy,  26.1 (2010),  pp. 107-110.

 

Dream, Phantasy and Art by Hanna Segal (Routledge 1991). In Free Associations 3.2 (no. 26), 1992, pp.  306-10.

 

A Beam of Intense Darkness: Wilfred Bion’s legacy to psychoanalysis  by James Grotstein. In British Journal of Psychotherapy, 24.4 (November 2008) pp. 529-32.

 

On the Way Home: conversations between writers and authors edited by Marie Bridge (Karnac, 2008). In The Brown Book (Lady Margaret Hall) 2009, pp. 111-12.

 

Dream, Phantasy and Art by Hanna Segal (Routledge 1991). In Free Associations 3.2 (no. 26), 1992, pp.  306-10.

 

 

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