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Melanie Klein
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Melanie Klein was a British-Austrian psychoanalyst who lived from 1882 to 1960 and made important contributions to how we understand the human mind, particularly in the area of child psychology. Her work has influenced modern psychotherapy and our understanding of how early childhood experiences shape personality and relationships.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Melanie
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Vienna
- Place of death
- London
- Child
- Melitta Schmideberg
- Occupation
- psychoanalyst
- Educated at
- University of Vienna
- Languages spoken
- German
- Field of work
- psychoanalysis
- Official website
- www.melanie-klein-trust.org.uk
- Image
- Melanie Klein c1900.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1882-03-30
- date of death
- 1960-09-22
- Commons category
- Melanie Klein
- Commons gallery
- Melanie Klein
- influenced by
- Sigmund Freud
- archives at
- Wellcome Library
- birth name
- Melanie Reizes
- place of burial
- Golders Green Crematorium
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Encyclopedic overview
Melanie Klein (/klaɪn/; German: [klaɪn]; née Reizes; 30 March 1882 – 22 September 1960) was an Austrian-British author and psychoanalyst known for her work in child analysis. She was the primary figure in the development of object relations theory. Klein's work primarily focused on the role of ambivalence and moral ambiguity in human development. Klein suggested that pre-verbal existential anxiety in infancy catalyzed the formation of the unconscious, which resulted in the unconscious splitting of the world into good and bad idealizations. In her theory, how the child resolves that split depends on the constitution of the child and the character of nurturing the child experiences. The quality of resolution can inform the presence, absence, and/or type of distresses a person experiences later in life.
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