Born 30 Mar 1882; died 22 Sep 1960 at age 78.

Austrian-born British #psychoanalyst known for her work with young #children, in which observations of free play provided insights into the child's unconscious #fantasy life, enabling her to psychoanalyze children as young as two or three years of age.

After WW I, Klein began to develop methods of #pPlaytherapy, showing that how children play with toys reveals earlier #infantile fantasies and #anxieties.

In The #Psychoanalysis of Children (1932), she showed how these anxieties affected a child's developing #ego, #superego, and #sexuality to bring about #emotional disorders. Through her methods she attempted to relieve children of disabling #guilt by having them direct toward the therapist the aggressive and #Oedipal #feelings they could not #express to their parents.