The first comprehensive exposition of Kleinian thought from a clinical and historical perspective. Acknowledgements, Examples, Introduction: A Guide to the Baffled Reader, The Foundation, The Psychoanalytic Background, Introjection and Projection, Unconscious Phantase, Appendix to Chapter 3: Earliest Object Relations, Melanie Klein's Contributions, A Method for Children, Internal Objects, The Depressive Position, The Paranoid-Schizoid Position, Appendix to Chapter 7: The Mind as Apparatus for Evacuation, Projective Identification, The Death Instinct and Envy, Epilogue to Part II: Omnipotence or Reality, Emotional Contact and the K-Link, Emotional Contact and the K-Link, Countertransference, Knowing and Being Known, Oedipal Knowing, Being Moved, Impasse and the Organization of the Personality, Change and Development, Epilogue to Part III: The Evolution of Kleinian Technique, Reflections: Progress and History, Notes, References, Index.