Melanie Klein

Melanie Reizes Klein (30 March 1882 – 22 September 1960) was an Austrian-born British psychoanalyst who devised novel therapeutic techniques for children that had an impact on child psychology and contemporary psychoanalysis.

Melanie Klein in 1952

Quotes

• Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother.
  • Klein (1937, p. 311) as cited in: David Mann (2013) Love and Hate: Psychoanalytic Perspectives. p. 79