BOOKS

R.D. Hinshelwood, Sue Robinson and Oscar Zarate (1997) Melanie Klein for Beginners (London: Icon. BOOKS).  Later titled Introducing Melanie Klein.

This is a graphic book and quite elementary.

R.D. Hinshelwood and Tomasz Fortuna (2018) Melanie Klein: The Basics.  London: Routledge.

A general introduction for an academic readership and for clinical students of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

R.D. Hinshelwood (1997) Catastrophe, objects and representation: three levels of interpretation.  British Journal of Psychotherapy 13: 307-317.

There are various versions of the catastrophe that has to be avoided by unconscious defences. This paper discusses Esther Bick’s description of the earliest primitive body-ego layer of the unconscious.