ABSTRACT
The years 1926 to 1936 were very productive and relatively peaceful for Melanie Klein. When Klein joined the British Psychoanalytical Society a great deal of original work was in progress. When Melanie Klein settled in London she quickly found friends, collaborators, pupils and analysands, among them many eminent psychoanalysts. So Melanie Klein's work was in harmony with the trends of development in the British Society and the influence of her discoveries was far-reaching. On the whole, Melanie Klein's development and that of the British Society went hand in hand. Ernest Jones relates his work to Melanie Klein's and makes use of her findings. Joan Riviere's paper followed Melanie Klein's paper on the manic-depressive states and offered a most moving description of the depressive position. There was rather an English school of psychoanalysis, diverging somewhat from the Viennese and Berlin schools, and within the school members could be more or less in agreement with certain or all of Melanie Klein's findings.
