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It's not too late to register for our next online event this Saturday 8 November.

It's the first of a major new series exploring key Kleinian and post-Kleinian concepts, this time with speakers David Bell and Francesca Hume.

Details here: bit.ly/47GRFci

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A graphic featuring a portrait of Melanie Klein with the words Getting to Grips with Kleinian Concepts: 100 years of Klein and post-Kleinian developments
November 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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📕 Recent publications roundup 📕 These new books will be of interest to those seeking to explore the ideas of Melanie Klein and those who developed her thinking.

Find out more here: melanie-klein-trust.org.uk/news/recent-...

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Three book covers: Why Read Klein? The Importance of Melanie Klein's Work for Contemporary Psychoanalysis; Bion's Vertices: On Truth and Lies; and Mapping the Landscape: Explorations in Psychoanalysis
October 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Join us on Saturday 18 October for an online event focusing on Melanie Klein's groundbreaking work in child analysis.

Free tickets are available for qualified and trainee child psychotherapists. Please let your colleagues and friends know. For details visit bit.ly/4mexdFL
A graphic showing the date and details of this online event and photos of the two speakers: Our next online event: 18 October 2025. Centenary webinar: Celebrating Melanie Klein's first London papers on child analysis, with Claudia Frank and Margaret Rustin
October 4, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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The Melanie Klein Trust is very sad to learn of the death of our dear colleague, the pre-eminent psychoanalyst Dr Ron Britton, on 25 August 2025.

Read our tribute here: melanie-klein-trust.org.uk/news/dr-ron-...
Photograph of Dr Ron Britton
September 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Join us for a special online event marking the 100th anniversary of Melanie Klein’s first London lectures.

To mark this centenary, we are offering free tickets to all qualified and trainee child psychotherapists. Find out more here: bit.ly/4mexdFL
Photo of the speakers at the event on 18 October 2025: Claudia Frank and Margaret Rustin. The title of the event is 'Celebrating Melanie Klein's first London papers on child analysis'
August 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Our summer newsletter is out! Find out about upcoming events, new content on our website and reflections on 'truth and kindness'.

Read it here: mailchi.mp/melanieklein... and visit our website to sign up for future editions

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A drawing in red crayon by one of Melanie Klein's child patients
August 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Another find from the Melanie Klein archive - some clinical observations from Klein's work with a child patient about 'rivalry and the wish to prove always that one knows better, as a defence against guilt'.

Read the notes, and our archivist's commentary, on our blog klein-archive.tumblr.com
The top part of a yellowed sheet of paper, with typed text: Rivalry and the Wish to Prove always that one Knows better, as a Defence against Guilt. After the summer holidays an 11-year-old girl patient comes back and is very pleased, though she does not express it, with a box of bricks which I had prepared for her. She had a similar but smaller box of bricks given after the Easter holidays, and remarked on that occasion that it would be nice to have a larger box as well.
July 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Join us on 18 October for a special event marking the 100th anniversary of Melanie Klein’s first London lectures.

Claudia Frank and Margaret Rustin will discuss Klein’s groundbreaking early work in child analysis, first in Berlin and then in London.

More info: tinyurl.com/35kzw36f

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Photographs of Claudia Frank and Margaret Rustin
July 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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A day of thought-provoking papers and discussion is well underway!

Delighted to welcome so many friends and colleagues to our conference in London today - and around the world online.

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June 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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We are very sad to announce the death of our treasured colleague, Ignês Sodré. She was an outstanding psychoanalyst renowned for writing beautiful literary papers.

You can read more about her life and work here:
melanie-klein-trust.org.uk/writers/igne...
A photo of Ignes Sodre
May 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Did you miss any of our online events? You can purchase and stream video recordings from our online shop: melanie-klein-trust.org.uk/shop/

There you'll find events on a range of Kleinian themes and an array of different perspectives on the analytic process.

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April 15, 2025 at 9:40 AM