Melanie Klein

Klein believed that through playing, thoughts from the unconscious mind would emerge. After these thoughts have emerged, the therapist treating the child will then have the ability to help that child to be able to identify issues that arise and overcome them with their guided help. Within this form of therapy, Klein promoted the use of small toys specifically, due to the fact she believed children would respond…

are several existing theories with respect to the biological and psychoanalytical aspects of love and hate. I will be specifically analyzing theories regarding the psychoanalytical aspect. A couple of interpretations that stand out are Freud, Melanie Klein, Ian Suttie and Edith Jacobson. Before examining each of these interpretations, we must first know and understand where we obtained the concept of love and hate from. Ancient Greek culture, being the birthplace of Western civilization,…

of play therapy can be traced back to Sigmund Freud and his daughter, Anna Freud, but it does not have a single founder, rather, numerous contributors who expanded and developed the intervention of play therapy further. Margaret Lowenfeld and Melanie Klein ascertained the comparison between children’s spontaneous play and free association used…

After reading Melanie Klein theory of personality, writer agrees with the Borderline Personality. Another major issue is her inability to handled stressful situation and handled having to make her own decision in major events in life, such as seeking for another job for example…

theories. Particularly, the theories Object Relations theory and Classical Drive theory. Object Relations theory addresses an object as a part of a relationship or attunement with other people, particularly parental relationships. According to Melanie Klein, an object is a person or a role of a person in a particular person’s life. This person generally serves as a template in adulthood for relationships from childhood. The object according to Winnicott, serves as the maternal/child interaction,…

Sigmund Freud claimed that "neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity." Ambuigity commonly creates anxiety even for the most well-adjusted individual. Group work calls for a certain amount of nebulousness in the process of developing a safe space and cohesion among members. Yalom and Leszcz (2005) and Corey, Corey, Corey (2010) agree that resistance and conflict can be viewed as positive and in service of moving the group forward. Both authors advocate for the proper and skillful working…

Melanie Klein believed that human beings' core conflict is one of love(hate) and good (bad); the earlier ones as presence and latter ones as absence (Professor Brizman, course slide). The paranoid-schizoid is the splitting of good and bad and there is no ambivalence in this position. However, the human experience to identify good and bad is ambivalent for the reason that a state of mind is an emotional experience which it isn't just one state of mind but with many. Learning itself too is an…

play therapy in school counselling, how child-centered play therapy which is one of the play therapy apply to school counselling and case application in school counselling. Play therapy Play therapy is originally developed by Anna Freud and Melanie Klein. According to Landreth, ‘play therapy is developed from the effort to apply psychoanalytic therapy children’ (1991). It is because Freud, and…

Soon after, Melanie Klein and Anna Freud followed suit, using play with children in place of free association, which was used with adults (Bratton, Ray, Rhine, & Jones, 2005). Play therapy developed throughout the 1900s to include structured play created by David Levy…

1. Psychoanalysis and its variants: • Psychoanalysis is recognizable through the silence or very limited comments on the part of the therapist; it is mainly the client talking. The talking can also be referred to as free expression (Feltham, 1995) • The psychoanalyst allows the client sufficient time and space for self-discovery, so as to find answer to his or her problems, within himself/herself. • One of the major issues throughout all psychoanalysis therapies and its variants is transference.…