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Table of Contents

1 – The Essential Donald Meltzer

2 – Outline of the Meltzer Reader

  • Module 1 – The Brain and Development in Infancy
    • Table of Contents
    • Models Instead of Theories
    • The ‘Baby Core’ of the Personality
    • The Origin of the Baby Core in Preconceptions
    • The Creation of Paired Internal Relationships, The Early Super-Ego
    • Unconscious Phantasies, the Cerebral Cortex, and the Frontal Lobes
    • Life Experience: ‘Baby Level’ Emotions versus ‘Adult’ Cognitive Meanings
    • Some Implications of Memories Stored as Feelings
    • Limbic Leakage as Lifelong Response to Distressing Experience
    • Puberty and the Resurgence of the Baby Core of the Personality
  • Module 2 – Part 1 – Kleinian Models For Personality Creation in Infancy
    • Table of Contents
    • Bion’s ‘Mother Infant Model’ for Creating a Mental Apparatus
    • What’s Love Got to Do with It? Love’s Central Role with Mom
    • Baby Core Emotions in Relation to Mom: Separation
    • Baby Core Emotions in Relation to Mom: Jealousy
    • Baby Core Emotions in Relation to Mom: Envy
    • The Baby Core of the Personality in Relation to Mom: Anxiety, Guilt, and Depression
    • The Baby’s Earliest Value System of ‘Self-Interest’
    • The Maturing Value System of Concern for the Other: The Depressive Position
    • The Composition of the Unconscious Inner World of Psychic Reality Based on the Creation of the Internal Family of Paired Relationships Between Good and Bad Parts of Self, Mom, and Dad
    • Creating a Healthy Personality Structure Through Balanced Introjection and Projection
  • Module 2 – Part 2 – Klein’s BabyCore Coping / Defensive Maneuvers
    • Table of Contents
    • Self-Regulatory Maneuvers for Infants: A Brief Introduction to Barry Brazelton, M.D.
    • The Organ of Attention and Denial of Experience
    • Being An Unborn Inside Baby
    • The Death Instinct: How Alive To Be, How Much Life To Live?
    • Splitting-and-Idealization
    • Splitting-and-Projective Identification
    • The Manic Defense
    • Narcissistic Personality Organization (à la Herbert Rosenfeld and Donald Meltzer)
    • Omnipotence and Omniscience to Augment Defensive Maneuvers
  • Module 3 – Marriage and the Baby Core
    • Table of Contents
    • The Essentials of Marriage and Marital Therapy
    • The Marital Selection Process
    • The Good Marriage
    • The Troubled Marriage
    • Marital Infidelity and the Baby Core of the Personality
    • Marital Therapy and the Baby Core of the Personality
  • Module 4 – The Baby Core in Life
    • Table of Contents
    • How to Take a Baby History and Understand Its Implications
    • Neuroscience, Psychoanalysis, and The Baby Core of the Personality: Plausible Connections
    • Criminal Behavior and the Baby Core of the Personality
    • Religion and Religious Thought as Impacted by the Baby Core of the Personality
    • Infantile Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome and the Baby Core of the Personality
  • Module 5 – Extended Lectures on Kleinian Theory
    • Table of Contents
    • Unconscious Envy: Everything I Would Have Wanted to Learn if I Had Not Already Known It
    • An Overview of Manic Defenses in Clinical Practice
    • Concreteness in Infancy, Clinical Practice, and Everyday Life
    • The Clinical Relevance of the Organ of Attention
    • The Bad Self: The Envious, Omnipotent, Know-it-all, Destructive, Self-Sufficient “Bad” Part of Self
    • Embarrassment, Shame, and Humiliation: Their Clinical Relevance
    • The Fundamentals of Dream Interpretation: A Kleinian Approach
    • Dream Case Book
    • The Art of Engaging a Patient in Treatment and Its Natural Extension: The Conversion of Psychotherapy to Psychoanalysis
    • 25 Axioms Every Mental Health Professional Must Understand
  • Module 6 – Short Takes
    • Table of Contents
    • Forgiveness – Lessons Learned
    • Breast Feeding and Kleinian Models
    • Some Thoughts on Adoption
    • Super-Ego and Conscience
    • Sibling Rivalry
    • Internal Harmony
    • On Blaming
    • Quotes: Minnick’s Favorite Quotes and Paraphrases
  • Module 7 – Donald Meltzer
    • Table of Contents
    • The Essential Donald Meltzer

  Chris L. Minnick, M.D.

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