Melanie Klein

Meira Likierman is a senior staff member at the Tavistock Clinic in London

• Ferenczi, Freud and Klein's Encounter with Psychoanalysis - The Development of a Child - The First Child Patients - Departure from Freud - Early Object, Physical Defences and Dissociation Processes - Ambivalence and Depressive States - Tragedy and Morality in the Depressive Position - Klein's Concept of Phantasy - The Paranoid-Schizoid Position - Protective Identification, Unintegrated States and Splitting - Two Accounts of Envy - Loneliness

"Klein has been quoted but she has never, until Likierman's book been properly read. This book reveals with patient lucidity just what is fascinating about Klein as a psychoanalytic theorist. It recovers her work, in other words, from the sentimentality and moralism in which her so-called followers have buried her. Likierman's Klein is a Klein for a new generation of readers."-Adam Phillips, author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored