This important book provides a concise introduction to Melanie Klein and
the key concepts and theories she founded, outlining their application
to psychoanalytic technique, and explaining how her ideas have been
further developed.
As Klein's ideas have opened the exploration of deeper and more
primitive areas of the mind, they have led to extensive theoretical and
technical developments across the world, in various schools of
psychoanalytic thought. This book addresses Klein's early papers on her
work with children and her extensions of Freud's ideas, as well as her
divergence from them, highlighting Klein's emphasis on loving
relationships in the mitigation of hatred, in children's overall
development and in the drive for reparation. Examples from Klein's
clinical work with children and adults are included to illustrate and
illuminate her points.
Offering clear expositions of complex concepts and linking to more
detailed sources of information, this book is important reading for all
clinicians, trainees and students interested in emotional development
and in the analysis of children and adults.