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The Kleinian Development - Part I: Freud's Clinical Development

Author(s) : Donald Meltzer

Reviews and Endorsements

‘Meltzer’s beautifully written text traces a line of development in psychoanalysis from Freud through Abraham to Klein and Bion, focusing on their methods of observation, clinical work and emerging theories. By highlighting points of congruence and difference and significant shifts in understanding, he outlines a continuity of clinical method and thought that has come to be known as the “Kleinian Development”. This text is an invaluable companion to the readings of Freud, Klein and Bion for all students of psychoanalysis, for clinicians and for all those interested in the development of psychoanalytic thinking.’
Debbie Hindle, Organising tutor, Scottish Institute of Human Relations

‘With Meltzer as guide we can discover a wealth of object-relational themes in Freud, themes that seems more evident today than in the early years of psychoanalysis. In Part 1 of “The Kleinian Development” we follow the tension between Freud’s truthfully written clinical observations and a theory not always capable of apprehending these findings, and see how this tension became a challenge to the next generation of analysts, among them Klein.’
Grete Tangen Andersen, Morten Andersen, Jon Morgan Stokkeland, Lilian Stokkeland, Eirik Tjessem (The Meltzer Study Group, Stavanger, Norway)