Mrs. Edna O'Shaughnessy studied philosophy at Wit-
watersrand and Oxford Universities, after which she
trained as a child psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic
and worked for many years in the Department of Child
Development at the Institute of Education, London Uni-
versity. At present she is a training analyst of the British
Psychoanalytical Society and works in private practice as a
psychoanalyst of children and adults.

Dr. Hanna Segal has at various times been Scientific
Secretary, Chairman of the Education Committee, and
President of the British Society and Vice President of the
International Psychoanalytical Association, as well as
Visiting Professor of the Freud Memorial Chair at Uni-
versity College, London. She is the leading exponent of
Melanie Klein's work, about which she has written in
numerous papers and two books: An Introduction to the
Work of Melanie Klein ( Heinemann, 1964; reprinted Karnac
Books, Institute of Psychoanalysis of London, 1988) and
Melanie Klein in the Modern Master Series ( Fontana 1979).
She has also developed her ideas in a number of original
papers, which are collected in her third book, The Work of
Hanna Segal ( Jason Aronson, 1981; reprinted Karnac
Books, Free Association Books, 1986).

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