Shrinkle #40 · Famous name · 5 letters
Melanie Klein
An Austrian-born British psychoanalyst who pioneered therapy with very young children through play. She helped develop object relations theory, about how we carry inner pictures of the important people in our lives.
In the room
Her ideas show up when therapists talk about splitting, seeing someone as all good or all bad, and how early relationships echo later on.
Something a client might say
“So a baby can experience a parent as either all good or all bad?”
An illustrative line, not a real client.
Where it comes from
Melanie Klein was a pioneer of object relations theory and of psychoanalytic play technique with children.
Related ideas
Object relations · Splitting · Play technique
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