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- adjective Of or pertaining to Christian Felix Klein (1849–1925),
German mathematician . - adjective Of or pertaining to Melanie Reizes Klein (1882–1960),
Austrian -bornBritish psychoanalyst who devised novel therapeutic techniques for children.
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The distinguished Kleinian psychoanalyst, Hannah Segal, seems a likely candidate, given Wollheim's psychoanalytic era and orientation.
Notes on 'The Ordinary Sky: Wordsworth, Blanchot, and the Writing of Disaster' 2008
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Klein and her group of adherents were requested to make presentations of key Kleinian ideas to the Society in its scientific meetings, so that these could be debated.
Melanie Klein. 2009
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This culminated in a compromise that involved the division of the British Psychoanalytical Society into three schools of thought, Freudian, Kleinian and Independent.
Melanie Klein. 2009
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Frank provides an elaborate description of how the healthy process of psychological "integration" is supposed to work, some of which is based on such unconvincing Kleinian theories as the "good mother" and the "bad mother."
Steve Anderson: Dubya: Father? Yes, Son? I Want to Kill You. Mother? I Want To... 2008
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This idea invites projection like few others -- and something Kleinian analysts call projective identification.
Justin Frank: Politics on the Couch: Opposites Detract or Listening to the Unsaid 2008
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Although Kernberg adhered to Freudian drive and structural theory and credited Jacobson and Mahler for their contributions, his writings show a strong Kleinian influence 1975,1976,1984.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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These two women, along with another prominent theorist, Otto Kernberg, who attempted to integrate Freudian theory and ego psychology with Kleinian object relations theory, sometimes are referred to as American object relations theorists.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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Although Kernberg adhered to Freudian drive and structural theory and credited Jacobson and Mahler for their contributions, his writings show a strong Kleinian influence 1975,1976,1984.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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These two women, along with another prominent theorist, Otto Kernberg, who attempted to integrate Freudian theory and ego psychology with Kleinian object relations theory, sometimes are referred to as American object relations theorists.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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One could see multiple competing theories and schools arise in the case of psychoanalysis: classical, ego psychology, object relations, self psychology, Kleinian, systems theory, information theory, etc.
The Unknown Freud: An Exchange Blum, Harold P. 1994
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