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A summary of the theories of Melanie Klein, a contemporary of Freud's, whose object relations theories about early childhood development have only recently been accepted in the United States with the same credibility they have long held in Europe and elsewhere.

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"This paper is a summary of the thoughts of psychoanalyst Melanie Klein which makes her a rough contemporary of Sigmund Freud. Klein's therapeutic techniques with children influenced modern child care and child rearing methodology. She is considered to be one of the founders of object relations theory. Due to a number of cultural and historical effects Klein has only recently begun to be accepted among the American psychological community while the ideas and approaches in her thinking that deviate from those of Freud have long had adherents in ..."

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