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Article: Controversial Discussions (Anna Freud-Melanie Klein)
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- International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
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CONTROVERSIAL DISCUSSIONS (ANNA FREUD-MELANIE KLEIN)
The title, Controversial Discussions, refers to the protracted discussions between Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, their followers and members of the indigenous group of British analysts which took place in the British Psycho-Analytical Society between 1941 and 1946.
The Discussions involved scientific, educational, and administrative problems and had the aim of deciding whether the new views concerning child development and psychoanalytic technique to treat both children and adults proposed by Klein and her followers: Susan Isaacs, Paula Heimann, Joan Riviere, and others, were compatible with the classical view of psychoanalysis as ...