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Melanie Klein (née Reizes; 30 March 1882 – 22 September 1960) was an Austrian-British author and psychoanalyst known for her work in child analysis. She was the primary figure in the development of object relations theory.
Melanie Klein (nee Reizes) was born in Vienna in 1882 into a middle-class Jewish family. Although she was educated at the gymnasium, her intellectual ambitions to attend medical school were thwarted by a fall in the family fortunes and at the age of twenty-one she married Arthur Klein, an industrial chemist, and began to raise a family.
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Nov 13, 2023 · Psychologist Melanie Klein, best known for developing play therapy and object relations theory, believed that adult relationships are shaped by those experienced in infancy. Learn more about her life and the enormous contributions she made to her field.
Jan 25, 2024 · Object relations theory in psychoanalysis posits that early childhood relationships with primary caregivers, particularly the mother, profoundly shape an individual’s later interactions and emotional development. It emphasizes internalized mental representations of self and others, which guide interpersonal relations and influence one’s ...
Projective identification is a term introduced by Melanie Klein and then widely adopted in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Projective identification may be used as a type of defense , a means of communicating, a primitive form of relationship , or a route to psychological change; [1] used for ridding the self of unwanted parts or for controlling ...
Melanie Klein was a controversial yet highly influential and powerful member of the British Psychoanalytical Society for over thirty years. Her theories about the development of a child's inner world transformed psychoanalysis and have had a deep and far-reaching impact.
Melanie Klein (born March 30, 1882, Vienna, Austria—died Sept. 22, 1960, London, Eng.) was an Austrian-born British psychoanalyst known for her work with young children, in which observations of free play provided insights into the child’s unconscious fantasy life, enabling her to psychoanalyze children as young as two or three years of age.
