Melanie Klein in Berlin

Claudia Frank is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Stuttgart. She is a training analyst of the DPV, a constituent society of the International Psychoanalytic Association. Until 2001 she was Chair of Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics in the Department for Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics of the University in Tübingen. She has published papers on the technique, theory and history of psychoanalysis as well as on applied psychoanalysis. She is co-editor of the Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse.

‘This book is the work of a true scholar. And we all have much reason to thank Claudia for making us aware of the results of her meticulous comparison of Klein’s published papers, her unpublished papers and her clinical treatment notes’ – Elizabeth Spillius, from the Preface "Highly erudite...an in-depth summary of Klein's theory and technical methods. A thoroughly researched book that will be of greatest use ot Kleinian scholars but also will be of interest to seasoned psychoanalytic practitioners as well as those who teach child analysis in psychoanalytic institutes. I highly recommend Frank's book to this audience." -Christine C. Kieffer in PsycCRITIQUES"We owe profound gratitude to Frank, who presents us with Klein’s handwritten notes (meticulously translated by Sophie Leighton and Sue Young), along with case material both unpublished and previously published. The material is offered not simply as process notes, but with Frank’s explication and analysis of Klein’s concepts, in historical perspective, of treating children and adolescents analytically. Many of Klein’s theoretical concepts of child analysis are fundamental to our clinical work in contemporary child analysis. ... What makes this volume so valuable is the transparent way in which the material is presented, as well as the opportunity it offers to follow the evolution of Klein’s thinking and its historical context. Furthermore, the book emphasizes that Klein’s contributions are essential to child analysis in ways that many contemporary child analysts might not fully appreciate." - Anita G. Schmukler, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

• Spillius, Preface. Part I. Introduction. Melanie Klein's Psychoanalytic Clinical Work in Berlin. Grete: One of Melanie Klein's Very First Little Girl Patients in Berlin. Rita: Klein's Youngest Patient. The Beginning of the Play Technique: Inge and, Perhaps, Ernst? Erna: The Most Extensive Child Analysis of the Berlin Years. Conclusion. Part II. Notes to this Edition. Treatment Notes on Grete. Treatment Notes on Rita. Treatment Notes on Inge. Treatment Notes on Erna. Bibliography