ABSTRACT
Melanie Klein believed, as do her followers, that both the positive and negative transference must be analyzed. Rather than seeing the need for a therapeutic alliance from which patient and analyst both worked on the negative, she thought the entire personality — the full spectrum of emotions and thoughts — was important to understand. Instead of thinking that some patients are too fragile to analyze and therefore must be supported and their defenses strengthened, she thought that proper analysis of the patient's anxieties and troubling phantasies promoted growth and strengthened the ego.
