Psychotherapist Dr Judith Edwards has chosen to discuss Narrative of a Child Analysis by Melanie Klein on FiveBooks as one of the top five on her subject - Child Psychotherapy, saying that:



"...In Narrative of a Child Analysis Klein describes her work during the war with a 10-year-old school-refusing child, Richard, when they were both evacuated to Pitlochry. Unsurprisingly, Richard co-opts Hitler and the opposing armies and navies into his own private internal war, his Empire of Mum, as he called it, giving Klein the opportunity to show in detail day by day the unconscious conflicts and rivalries which had produced such profound anxiety in the boy. Richard wanted to be sole possessor of his mother’s love, to the exclusion of his father and brother. Here was Freud’s original notion of the Oedipus complex writ large..."



The full interview is available here: http://fivebooks.com/interviews/judith-edwards-on-child-psychotherapy ( )