Melanie Klein Quotes

Melanie Reizes Klein was an Austrian-British psychoanalyst who devised novel therapeutic techniques for children that influenced child psychology and contemporary psychoanalysis. She was a leading innovator in object relations theory.

✵ 30. March 1882 – 22. September 1960

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Melanie Klein Quotes

“Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother.”

Melanie Klein

Klein (1937, p. 311) as cited in: David Mann (2013) Love and Hate: Psychoanalytic Perspectives. p. 79

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