Narrative of a Child Analysis

Melanie Klein

The author provides us with a picture of her work with ten-year-old Richard. Keeping notes of each session she was able to describe the day-to-day course of the analysis interpreting Richard's drawings play verbal associations and report of dreams. And in a series of notes accompanying the clinical description Melanie Klein comments upon the clinical material linking it to more theoretical conclusions. In doing so she has provided us with an invaluable guide to the technique of psycho-analyzing children. Melanie Klein also wrote The Psycho-analysis of Children Envy and Gratitude Love and Guilt and Reparation .