Despite his interest in the theoretical advances of psychoanalysis made during what he termed The Kleinian Development, Meltzer believed that clinical supervision was the only way to teach psychoanalytic practice. In effect he treated supervision as an art form just as he regarded psychoanalysis as an art form. The library of his supervision work, almost all recorded outside the UK, thus forms a valuable teaching model for future practitioners, as well as demonstrating Meltzer's wealth of insight into both character development and analytic technique.



Marisa Pelella Mélega is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst in private practice and a Training Analyst and Supervisor at the Brazilian Psychoanalytic Society of São Paulo. She founded the São Paulo Mother–Baby Relationship Study Centre in 1987, receiving accreditation from the Centro Studi Martha Harris, in Rome. She teaches at the Brazilian Institute as a child psychoanalyst, 1996. Her clinical and research interests include applications of the Esther Bick observation model, as in assessment and therapeutic interventions with parents and children.



Introduction



Marisa Pelella Mélega



1. Narrative of a dream life



Marisa Pelella Mélega



2. On the trail of voyeurism



Célia Fix Korbivcher



3. Emergence from living in projective identification



Martha Maria de Moraes Ribeiro



4. A countertransference experience with an eleven-year-old boy



Alicia Beatriz Dorado de Lisondo



5. The birth of a baby and premonitions of the depressive position



Alfredo Colucci







6. Overcoming a preformed transference



Paulo Cesar Sandler



7. Thought disorder from living in a claustrophobic world



Marisa Pelella Mélega







8. Confusional states and a childish erotic transference



Marisa Pelella Mélega



Index