Melanie Klein
Melanie Klein
Kaitlin Dunning
Melanie Klein was born in Vienna, Austria on March 30 1882. Her father was Dr. Moriz Reisez; a jewish Physician, and her mother; Libusa Deutsch. She had 3 older siblings, Emmanuel, Sidonie, and Emilie. Emmanuel and Sidonie both died at a young age. Her only brother Emmanuel tutored her n Greek and Latin, her sister, Sidonie, taught her how to read and write. This knowledge that they gave her made it possible for Melanie to pass entry exams to various schools. Later on, she studied Art and History at the Vienna University. She was engaged to Arthur Klein at age 19 and then married at age 21. Melanie passed up several offers from Medical schools in which she wanted to attend to follow her husband. Together they had three children; Erich, Melitta and Hans. And then in 1922, Melaine and Arthur separated. Melanie Klein had a major impact on development of psychoanalytic thought since Freud. She developed object of relations theory and wrote "Development of a Child" in 1910. Melanie also came up with the "Play Technique". The play technique explains that the child 's national way to express their selves is through play. Play is a way of communicating for children. The "Play Technique" demonstrated the ways that children played with toys showed early stages of infantile fantasies and anxieties. Melanie observed how child 's unconscious thought could be understood by non-verbal behaviors. Before Klein, no one had ever thought to analyze children. She also wrote these books; The Psychoanalysis of Children in 1932, Contributions to Psychoanalysis in 1948, Narrative of a Child Analysis in 1961, and Our Adult World and Other Essays in 1963. Melanie Klein had a great influence on psychology. She brought up new ideas from Freud and twisted them to be her own. She was the first to fully analyze children psychologically and developed the theory that the child’s play activity is taken as symbolic of unconscious material and is interpreted
Kaitlin Dunning
Melanie Klein was born in Vienna, Austria on March 30 1882. Her father was Dr. Moriz Reisez; a jewish Physician, and her mother; Libusa Deutsch. She had 3 older siblings, Emmanuel, Sidonie, and Emilie. Emmanuel and Sidonie both died at a young age. Her only brother Emmanuel tutored her n Greek and Latin, her sister, Sidonie, taught her how to read and write. This knowledge that they gave her made it possible for Melanie to pass entry exams to various schools. Later on, she studied Art and History at the Vienna University. She was engaged to Arthur Klein at age 19 and then married at age 21. Melanie passed up several offers from Medical schools in which she wanted to attend to follow her husband. Together they had three children; Erich, Melitta and Hans. And then in 1922, Melaine and Arthur separated. Melanie Klein had a major impact on development of psychoanalytic thought since Freud. She developed object of relations theory and wrote "Development of a Child" in 1910. Melanie also came up with the "Play Technique". The play technique explains that the child 's national way to express their selves is through play. Play is a way of communicating for children. The "Play Technique" demonstrated the ways that children played with toys showed early stages of infantile fantasies and anxieties. Melanie observed how child 's unconscious thought could be understood by non-verbal behaviors. Before Klein, no one had ever thought to analyze children. She also wrote these books; The Psychoanalysis of Children in 1932, Contributions to Psychoanalysis in 1948, Narrative of a Child Analysis in 1961, and Our Adult World and Other Essays in 1963. Melanie Klein had a great influence on psychology. She brought up new ideas from Freud and twisted them to be her own. She was the first to fully analyze children psychologically and developed the theory that the child’s play activity is taken as symbolic of unconscious material and is interpreted
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