Introduction

From the very large number of Kleinian clinical papers, I have chosen three to give the reader an impression of how Kleinian analysts work clinically. All three have much in common, but, in addition, each gives an example of work at a different time period, Segal's in 1950, Riesenberg Malcolm's in 1970, and O'Shaughnessy's in 1983. The first two were intended to be purely clinical papers whereas the third was contributed to a symposium on communication so that the ideas were central and the clinical material, though detailed, was intended primarily to illustrate them.