ABSTRACT
By the time Melanie Klein turned down Adrian Stokes's offer to commission and pay Jacob Epstein to make a bust of her Stokes was again living in Hampstead where he had lived many years before in the Isokon building in Lawn Road, and where Klein had moved in 1953. Adrian Stokes's return to Hampstead was connected with Klein helping organise for Ariadne to begin treatment four times a week in early September 1954 with the psychoanalyst, Esther Bick. Psychoanalysing very young children had become something of a fad among Klein enthusiasts. Klein herself had psychoanalysed her youngest child, Erich, in Budapest when he was three. "She came in hunched, stiff-jointed, grotesque like a 'sack of potatoes' as she later called herself, and emitting an explosive 'SSBICK' for 'Good morning, Mrs. Bick'," said Bick in recounting Ariadne's initial treatment sessions with her.
