Description
Betty Joseph was a training and supervising analyst and child analyst in the British Psychoanalytical Society. She was one of the leading Kleinian thinkers of her generation along with Bion, Rosenfeld and Hanna Segal and an inspiring presence in the British Society for over 60 years.
She was very influenced by Bion whose originality and vision always impressed her. What particularly distinguished Joseph’s work was her devotion to technique. She believed that only by paying the most rigorous attention to what the patient is not only saying but doing in the analytic session, together with the analyst’s own countertransference, can psychic reality emerge.
