PART I: Introduction, outline and critical review of Klein’s lectures and seminars on technique

What characterises Kleinian technique? This question is regularly asked by analytic colleagues, by members of the general public, and also by prospective patients who have often been unclear about the differences between the various schools of psychoanalysis. The interested reader can turn to accounts by Klein’s followers such as those by Hanna Segal (1964, 1967) and Elizabeth Spillius (2004, 2007) or to accounts by sympathetic observers from the outside, such as Roy Schafer (1994, 1997), but until now it has not been possible to read what Klein herself had to say about her technique with adult patients.