Mourning, melancholia and being staunch

Tom Davey

doi:10.9791/ajpanz.2000.06

Tom Davey

DOI: https://doi.org/10.9791/ajpanz.2000.06

Abstract

In recent publications, both Thomas Ogden (2000) and Jean Laplanche (1999) have highlighted the importance of mourning in their work. This is a particularly noteworthy confluence, coming as they do from very different traditions within psychoanalysis. I wish to discuss these contributions, to contextualise them in relation to Freud's 1915 paper Mourning and Melancholia, and to offer some reflections on my own work from within New Zealand.

Author Biography

Tom Davey

Tom Davey is the Director of the Auckland Family Counselling and Psychotherapy Centre. Previously he was the convenor of the MA in Clinical Supervision at the University of Sussex, UK. He is a UKCP Registered Psychotherapist and completed his MA in Psychotherapy at Regent's College, London. He has a particular interest in the work of Jean Laplanche.