H Segal 2006 – The Melanie Klein Trust

“…In today’s political and social realities in which we seem to live in a blocked system of mutual projective identification imbued with deadly hostility I think we must be more than ever aware of the power of those forces. There is a lot of research about the mental life in many important and interesting fields but I think you must remember that psychoanalytic theories are forged in our clinical work and however much we can be interested in and try to communicate with other kinds of research our own laboratory is always the        psychoanalytic setting and the psychoanalytic research into people’s minds.”