Melanie Klein
Melanie Klein (1882–1960) was an Austrian-British psychoanalyst who pioneered child analysis and object relations theory.
She introduced play therapy as a technique for accessing children's unconscious minds and developed influential concepts like the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions.
Her work on early infant development, particularly the infant's relationship with the mother's breast as the first "object," proved controversial but deeply influential.
Kleinian analysis remains a major school of psychoanalytic thought.
- play therapyPsychotherapy using games
- splittingDividing into parts
- unconscious processesMental functions without awareness
- envyResentful longing for another's
- reparationCompensation for injury done
introjection · gratitude · projection · countertransference · phantasy · emotional development · defense mechanisms · paranoid · separation anxiety · mother · breast · developmental stages · infant · unconscious · psychoanalysis · London · depressive · guilt
- psychoanalysisFreud, id, ego, unconscious, Sigmund Freud
- PsychologistsFreud, Jung, Piaget, Skinner, Maslow
- child psychotherapyplay therapy, art therapy, sand tray, sandplay, trauma work
- object relationstransitional object, object permanence, splitting, introjection, internalization
- AustriansMozart, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sigmund Freud, Gustav Klimt, Franz Schubert
Melanie Kleinbehaviorism
Psychology studying observable conduct
B.F. Skinner · Jean Piaget · cognitive behavioral therapy · attachment theory