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Activities
of the Trust The original capital of the Trust was
a quite small amount. But it has been augmented considerably by the
donations, legacies and income from publications as well as
investments. With increasing income the Trust 's activities have
been expanding and have been concentrated in the following areas: Publishing One of the major tasks of the Trust is to make available Melanie Klein’s own texts; to this end the Trust edited and promoted the publication of a four- volume edition, first published by the Institute of Psycho-Analysis and the Hogarth Press in 1975. Currently these are available in Vintage Paperbacks in the UK and the four titles have been translated into seventeen languages. The Trust Fund was founded with the possession of the copyright of New Directions in Psycho-Analysis and it also owns the copyright of Developments in Psycho-Analysis by Melanie Klein, Paula Heimann, Susan Isaacs and Joan Riviere. Various books including Introduction to the Work of Melanie Klein by Hanna Segal have been published under “the auspices of the Melanie Klein Trust”. The Trust has produced or supported in conjunction with different publishers a number of books for which it holds the copyright: the two volumes of Melanie Klein Today edited by Elizabeth Spillius, The Oedipus Complex Today by Ronald Britton, Michael Feldman, Edna O’Shaughnessy and The Inner World and Joan Riviere edited by Athol Hughes. There are translated editions of many other books sponsored by the Trust. Several books published in the New Library of Psycho-Analysis of the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, London were assisted by the Trust, such as Clinical Lectures in Klein and Bion edited by Robin Anderson. It has also given support and financial help to individual authors whose writing has been considered important for the development of Kleinian thought.
Translation The Trust has subsidised a number of translations from English into other languages, and other languages into English. Among notable examples are the six-volume German edition of Melanie Klein’s work, and the translation of Claudia Frank’s Melanie Klein’s erste Kinderanalysen, a study of Klein’s early analyses of children in Berlin, published by Karnac. The Trust has also co-operated with the Anna Freud Centre to subsidise the translation from French of A History of Child Psychoanalysis by Claudine and Pierre Geissmann published in the New Library of Psycho-Analysis in 1998. Education The Trust co-operates with psychoanalytic groups in the UK and abroad in organising and supporting conferences, seminars and other teaching activities. Conferences
For some years the Trust organised jointly with University College London a number of successful conferences. The Trust now organises bi-annual conferences on topics connected with current developments of Klein’s work.
Archives In her will Melanie Klein left her papers to the Trust. This became the Trust’s Melanie Klein Archives. Since her death the Trustees have done some research and have added to the original collection and will continue to do so. For technical reasons connected with preservation and organisation of the material, the Archive has been put into the care of the Wellcome Trust but copyright and right of access remains with the Melanie Klein Trust. Elizabeth Spillius has been made Honorary Archivist by the Trust and she has embarked on a major study of its contents. Access is granted to all bona fide researchers.
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