A copmposite showing the book cover of Why Read Klein and photos of the four discussants at the event on 18 April
Our next online event is open for registration! On 18 April, join Catalina Bronstein and Elias Rocha Barros in conversation with Elisa Maria de Ulhôa Cintra and Marina Ribeiro, authors of 'Why Read Klein?'. More info here: melanie-klein-trust.org.uk/events/autho...
A graphic with a portrait of Klein alongside the words: Register now for our next online event: Getting to Grips with Kleinian Concepts. 14 March 2026. Primitive anxieties and idealisation: implications for self-harm and violence in adolescence. With Catalina Bronstein.
Join us next Saturday as our series on child analysis continues. Catalina Bronstein will examine violence in adolescence as a response to intolerable feelings and persecutory phantasies.
With discussant Joshua Durban, chaired by Christine English.
Details at: www.tickettailor.com/events/theme...
Scanned image of a typed manuscript page with handwritten corrections, entitled Mourning and Melancholia, from the Melanie Klein archive
Have you explored our blog? In it we bring to light unpublished notes and papers from the Melanie Klein archive, like the extract pictured here, with illuminating commentary.
The latest post shares notes by Klein on her work with a bereaved child.
Read more here: klein-archive.tumblr.com
A photo of the book cover of 'Mapping the Landscape' next to a photograph of Priscilla Roth
Join us on 31 January for a discssion of Mapping the Landscape, a collection of Priscilla Roth’s papers that demonstrates her unique contribution to psychoanalysis. With Tomasz Fortuna, Michael Feldman, Gigliola Fornari Spoto, Orna Hadary and John Steiner
For more details visit bit.ly/49XWMHu
A portrait of Melanie Klein next to the words 'Getting to Grips with Kleinian Concepts: 100 years of Klein and post-Kleinian developments'
Join us on 24 January 2026 for the next in our Getting to Grips series. Maria Rhode will discuss Melanie Klein’s 1930 paper in which she describes her work with 4-year-old Dick - the first psychoanalytic treatment of a child with autism.
More info here: www.tickettailor.com/events/theme...
Drawing by one of Melanie Klein's child patients, of a tree coloured in green in a blue pot. From the Melanie Klein archives
Read our latest newsletter for details of new Kleinian events, recent publications and more: mailchi.mp/melanieklein...
With all good wishes for the festive season and the year to come.
Image: undated drawing by one of Melanie Klein's child patients, from the Melanie Klein archive.
Details of the IJP conference in January. John Steiner, Giuseppe Civitarese, Cecilia Taiana, and Joshua Durban will examine violence in different ways: on the battlefield, in the consulting room, in infancy, in autism, and in the poetic line. The event will be chaired by Francis Grier.
Portrait of Melanie Klein alongside the words: Getting to Grips with Kleinian Concepts. 100 years of Klein and post-Kleinian developments. Melanie Klein Trust
Are you interested in Melanie Klein's pioneering work with children, her ideas on emotional development in infancy, and how they illuminate our understanding of adults' inner lives?
Join our next online event, Finding the Child in the Adult, on 6 December 2025. Book at bit.ly/49Vs6r1
A graphic featuring a portrait of Melanie Klein with the words Getting to Grips with Kleinian Concepts: 100 years of Klein and post-Kleinian developments
It's not too late to register for our next online event this Saturday 8 November.
It's the first of a major new series exploring key Kleinian and post-Kleinian concepts, this time with speakers David Bell and Francesca Hume.
Details here: bit.ly/47GRFci
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Three book covers: Why Read Klein? The Importance of Melanie Klein's Work for Contemporary Psychoanalysis; Bion's Vertices: On Truth and Lies; and Mapping the Landscape: Explorations in Psychoanalysis
📕 Recent publications roundup 📕 These new books will be of interest to those seeking to explore the ideas of Melanie Klein and those who developed her thinking.
Find out more here: melanie-klein-trust.org.uk/news/recent-...
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For those interested in studying psychoanalysis from a broader perspective, David Bell presents a series of lectures on psychoanalysis and the socio-political world, starting in January 2026.
Find out more and register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-lec...
A graphic showing the date and details of this online event and photos of the two speakers: Our next online event: 18 October 2025. Centenary webinar: Celebrating Melanie Klein's first London papers on child analysis, with Claudia Frank and Margaret Rustin
Join us on Saturday 18 October for an online event focusing on Melanie Klein's groundbreaking work in child analysis.
Free tickets are available for qualified and trainee child psychotherapists. Please let your colleagues and friends know. For details visit bit.ly/4mexdFL
Edna O'Shaughnessy's work was characterised by her clarity of thinking, depth of understanding and her ability to think laterally about complex issues. She conveyed compassion for the anxieties and dilemmas that confront both patient and analyst. Read about her life and work: bit.ly/42Uo1ia
The IJP Annual Online Conference 2026 will feature four leading psychoanalysts presenting on diverse aspects of violence. Join John Steiner, Giuseppe Civitarese, Cecilia Taiana, and Joshua Durban as they explore violence in its many forms, chaired by Editor-in-Chief Francis Grier on 10 January 2026
“The sacrifice of memory and desire is conducive to the growth of dream-like ‘memory’ which is a part of the experience of psycho-analytical reality”
Wilfred Bion, born this day 8 Sept, 1897
Photograph of Dr Ron Britton
The Melanie Klein Trust is very sad to learn of the death of our dear colleague, the pre-eminent psychoanalyst Dr Ron Britton, on 25 August 2025.
Read our tribute here: melanie-klein-trust.org.uk/news/dr-ron-...
Photo of the speakers at the event on 18 October 2025: Claudia Frank and Margaret Rustin. The title of the event is 'Celebrating Melanie Klein's first London papers on child analysis'
Join us for a special online event marking the 100th anniversary of Melanie Klein’s first London lectures.
To mark this centenary, we are offering free tickets to all qualified and trainee child psychotherapists. Find out more here: bit.ly/4mexdFL
A drawing in red crayon by one of Melanie Klein's child patients
Our summer newsletter is out! Find out about upcoming events, new content on our website and reflections on 'truth and kindness'.
Read it here: mailchi.mp/melanieklein... and visit our website to sign up for future editions
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✨ We’re delighted to announce that Issue 3 of Volume 106 of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis is now available online! Explore the full issue at pep-web.org and learn more about the Journal and subscription options at theijp.org.
The top part of a yellowed sheet of paper, with typed text: Rivalry and the Wish to Prove always that one Knows better, as a Defence against Guilt. After the summer holidays an 11-year-old girl patient comes back and is very pleased, though she does not express it, with a box of bricks which I had prepared for her. She had a similar but smaller box of bricks given after the Easter holidays, and remarked on that occasion that it would be nice to have a larger box as well.
Another find from the Melanie Klein archive - some clinical observations from Klein's work with a child patient about 'rivalry and the wish to prove always that one knows better, as a defence against guilt'.
Read the notes, and our archivist's commentary, on our blog klein-archive.tumblr.com
New on the Klein archive blog: a guest post by Margherita Margiotti on Melanie Klein's observations while in hospital after an operation - at once autobiographical and rich in theoretical material.
Visit the blog for extracts and commentary: klein-archive.tumblr.com
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Are you interested in exploring Melanie Klein's ideas in more detail? Join us on 8 November for the first in a new series of online events, Getting to Grips with Kleinian Concepts: Exploring Kleinian and post-Kleinian developments (1925-2025).
Find out more here: bit.ly/44O5R2Y
Photographs of Claudia Frank and Margaret Rustin
Join us on 18 October for a special event marking the 100th anniversary of Melanie Klein’s first London lectures.
Claudia Frank and Margaret Rustin will discuss Klein’s groundbreaking early work in child analysis, first in Berlin and then in London.
More info: tinyurl.com/35kzw36f
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“the objects filled with aggressive parts of the self become persecuting…”
Herbert Rosenfeld, born this day, 2 July 1910
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A day of thought-provoking papers and discussion is well underway!
Delighted to welcome so many friends and colleagues to our conference in London today - and around the world online.
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It's not too late to register for our conference, ‘Truth and kindness in the psychoanalytic attitude’, on 15 June.
Register for your in-person place by 1 June, and for online atttendance by 12 June.
Find out more here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/melanie-kl...
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A photo of Ignes Sodre
We are very sad to announce the death of our treasured colleague, Ignês Sodré. She was an outstanding psychoanalyst renowned for writing beautiful literary papers.
You can read more about her life and work here:
melanie-klein-trust.org.uk/writers/igne...
A screenshot showing the front page of the Melanie Klein Trust website online shop
Did you miss any of our online events? You can purchase and stream video recordings from our online shop: melanie-klein-trust.org.uk/shop/
There you'll find events on a range of Kleinian themes and an array of different perspectives on the analytic process.
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Do you know about our archive blog? Our archivist regularly posts unpublished material from the Melanie Klein archive, reproducing and commenting on extracts that illuminate Klein's ideas and technique.
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