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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.
Nov 15, 2021 · In contrast to Anna Freud and Melanie Klein, who were seeing play as a psychoanalytic instrument, Axline was the one who saw the conceptual expression in the process of play and the one who introduced play as a form of therapy, as she believed that it was by itself a wound healing process (8, 9).
A grey and brown drawing by Melanie Klein’s child patient, ‘Richard’. Richard suffers from huge anxiety about disasters befalling the people he loves – including Klein herself. Like many children who come to psychotherapy, in his play Richard often acts out scenes which end in catastrophe.
Jun 13, 2015 · Play as the Language of the Child and Play as the Therapy. Melanie Klein applied the play technique to understand children’s inner world, focusing on the spontaneity of the play, children’s narrative given out during the play, the inhibition of the play, and the fantasy of the play.
Set in London in 1934, the play involves a conflict between Melanie Klein and her daughter Melitta Schmideberg, after the death of Melanie's son Hans Klein. The depiction of Melanie Klein is quite unfavorable: the play suggests that Hans' death was a suicide and also reveals that Klein had analysed these two children.
Play therapy has its early roots in psychoanalytic theory and is founded in the works of Sigmund Frued, Melanie Klein and Anna Freud. The first reference of the power of play in a therapeutic setting was documented by Sigmund Freud and his work with Little Hans [ 11 ].
Jan 5, 2024 · Melanie Klein, who used play as an analytic tool as well as a means to attract the children she worked with to therapy. Klein believed play provided insight into a child’s unconscious....
