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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Learn about the life and work of Melanie Klein, a controversial yet influential member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Discover how she developed her theories about the inner world of children and adults, and how she applied psychoanalysis to their play and dreams.

  4. Jan 25, 2024 · Learn about Klein's theory of the unconscious, which focuses on the infant's phantasy life and the mother-infant relationship. Explore her concepts of splitting, projective identification, and the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions.

  5. Mar 26, 2024 · 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.

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  6. Learn about the psychoanalytic ideas of Melanie Klein, who recognised the importance of our earliest childhood experiences in the formation of our adult emotional world. Explore her concepts of the paranoid-schizoid position, the Oedipus complex, the depressive position, projective identification, superego, envy, pathological organisations, reparation, internal objects and symbol formation.

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  8. Melanie Klein was a influential psychoanalyst who developed her own school of object relations theory and child analysis. She challenged Freud's theory of development and influenced the work of Bowlby and Winnicott. Learn about her life, work, and legacy from this brief biography by Gail Donaldson.

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