# Melanie Klein

Austrian-British psychoanalyst who pioneered child analysis and object relations theory through play technique.

**Lived:** 1882–1960 (b. Vienna, Austria)
**Nationality:** Austrian-British
**Training:** Psychoanalysis with Sándor Ferenczi
**Affiliation:** Object relations theory; Kleinian psychoanalysis

## Key works

- *The Psychoanalysis of Children*
- *Love, Guilt and Reparation: And Other Works 1921–1945*
- *Envy and Gratitude and Other Works 1946–1963* (1957)
- *Narrative of a Child Analysis*