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Melanie Klein’s theories. Melanie Klein took psychoanalytic thinking in a new direction by recognising the importance of our earliest childhood experiences in the formation of our adult emotional world.
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The Melanie Klein Trust was founded on 1st February 1955 to promote training and research in the psychoanalytic theory and technique adopted and practised by Melanie Klein, and ‘developments thereof’. It is a charitable trust registered with the Charity Commissioners (Reg. No. 251672).
The primary objects of the Melanie Klein Trust are: 1. To further and promote training and research in psychoanalytic theory and technique as adopted, developed and practised by Melanie Klein and ‘developments thereof’. 2. To publish, promote and encourage the publication of books, articles, pamphlets, and papers which are based upon or may further...
The Trust gives support to psychoanalytic education; it encourages authors to publish and supports those developing new ideas; it organises conferences and arranges for books to be published; it takes care of the Melanie Klein Archive in which it encourages historical research.
The Trust is managed by the Trustees, who at present are: 1. Gigliola Fornari Spoto (Chair) 2. Anne Amos (Hon. Secretary) 3. David Taylor (Hon. Treasurer) 4. Catalina Bronstein 5. Michael Feldman 6. Susan Lawrence 7. Priscilla Roth 8. Richard Rusbridger 9. Helga Skogstad Christine English is the Trust’s Archivist. Anna Irwin-Childs is the Melanie K...
In March 1952, a special issue of The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis was dedicated to Melanie Klein to mark her 70th birthday. The papers published in this issue became the basis of a book, New Directions in Psycho-Analysis, and the authors donated their copyrights to found the Melanie Klein Trust Fund. They were: Paula Heimann, Clifford ...
The Melanie Klein Trust is a charitable organisation that supports training, research and publication in the psychoanalytic approach of Melanie Klein and her followers. It also manages the Melanie Klein Archive and organises conferences on Kleinian topics.
Although Klein agrees in general with Freud’s idea of the life and death instincts, in her technical approach she is more concerned with the specific content of instinctual drives than with their abstract conceptualisation. Clinical observation is her starting point and her special gift.
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Learn about the life and work of Melanie Klein, a controversial and influential psychoanalyst who developed theories of child development and the inner world. Explore her contributions to psychoanalysis, her clinical practice, and her controversies with other analysts.