Kleinian school

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The Kleinian school is a psychoanalytic tradition based on Melanie Klein’s theories, emphasizing early object relations, unconscious phantasy, and the inner world of the infant.

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British object relations school 4
Kleinian school canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf psychoanalytic school
theoretical orientation in psychoanalysis
associatedWithConcept depressive position
internal good and bad objects
object relations theory
paranoid-schizoid position
projective identification
unconscious phantasy
basedOn theories of Melanie Klein
clinicalFocus early developmental disturbances
psychosis
severe personality disorders
contrastedWith Anna Freudian school
linked to: Anna Freud
controversy involved in the Controversial Discussions in the British Psychoanalytical Society
developedFrom Freudian psychoanalysis
differsFrom classical Freudian drive theory
emphasizes early object relations
the inner world of the infant
unconscious phantasy
field psychoanalysis
focusesOn infantile experience
internal objects
primitive mental states
givesPriorityTo object relations over drives
hasSubtradition post-Kleinian psychoanalysis
historicalPeriod 20th century
influenced British object relations school
linked to: Kleinian school

child psychoanalysis
contemporary psychoanalytic theory
institutionalBase British Psychoanalytical Society
keyFigure Betty Joseph
Hanna Segal
Herbert Rosenfeld
John Steiner
Melanie Klein
Wilfred Bion
language English
methodologicalEmphasis detailed analysis of transference
interpretation of unconscious phantasy in the session
originatedIn United Kingdom
region Europe
typicalTechnique focus on here-and-now analytic relationship
frequent interpretations of primitive anxieties
viewsAnxietyAs central to early mental life
viewsInfantAs having a complex inner world from earliest months
viewsMindAs populated by internal objects
viewsTransferenceAs expression of current unconscious phantasy

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Referenced by (7)

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Melanie Klein movement Kleinian school
Kleinian school influenced British object relations school
linked to: Kleinian school
Hanna Segal movement Kleinian school
The Psycho-Analysis of Children associatedWithSchool British object relations school
linked to: Kleinian school
Envy and Gratitude and Other Works influencedBy British object relations school
linked to: Kleinian school
Melanie Reizes influenced British object relations school
linked to: Kleinian school