What Is Kleinian Psychoanalysis?

Technique is a set of prescribed procedures for analyst and patient designed to facilitate making the unconscious conscious.

What did Melanie Klein believe?

Klein believed that the anxiety in the paranoid-schizoid position was persecutory, threatening the annihilation of the self, and the anxiety of the second, later position was depressive, being related to fear of the harm done to loved objects by the infant's own destructive impulses.

What is ego psychology theory?

Ego psychology extends classical psychoanalytic drive theory, combining biological and psychological views of individual development with frameworks referring to complex sociocultural dimensions.