The drawing shown at the top of each page in this site is by Melanie Klein's 10-year-old patient, 'Richard', of his 'internal family'. Klein wrote a detailed account of Richard's psychoanalytic treatment, undertaken in 1941, in Narrative of a Child Analysis (Karnac, 1961).
Many of the images on this site are reproduced courtesy of the Wellcome Collection archives. The Wellcome Collection archive holds many of Melanie Klein's original papers.
Editorial team
Website development committee: Anne Amos, Susan Lawrence, Mary Block, Erika Bard and Jane Milton (library), Natasha Harvey and Rupert Nieboer (audio/visual).
Research and editorial: Eleanor Sawbridge Burton
Editorial and project coordination: Caroline Graty
Design: Keith Haynes
Web design: Surface Impression
With thanks to the following contributors:
- Nicola Abel-Hirsch
- Robin Anderson
- Jill Boswell
- Cyril Couve
- Edie Hargreaves
- Chris Mawson
- Eileen McGinley
- Michael Mercer
- Jane Milton
- Carine Minne
- Ruth Petrie
- Margaret Rustin
- Ana Paulina de Sauma
- David Simpson
- John Steiner
Definitions and lists of key papers in the 'Concepts' section, and the key papers in the 'Child analysis' section are reproduced from The New Dictionary of Kleinian Thought with kind permission of authors Elizabeth Bott Spillius, Jane Milton, Penelope Garvey, Cyril Couve and Deborah Steiner.