ABSTRACT
Modern Kleinian Therapy is a contemporary hybrid of classical Kleinian psychoanalytic technique and a clinical approach to working with more disturbed or complicated patients in either individual or couples treatment. It uses a psychoanalytic focus to understand and work with internal resistances and external roadblocks to psychological integration. Modern Kleinian Therapy focuses on interpretation of particular transference process by investigating the unconscious phantasy conflicts at play and highlighting the more direct moment-to-moment transference usually mobilized by projective identification dynamics. If the phantasy is that a partner is being unfair or mean, the pathological solution is to punish them, force them to be fair by being even more selfish than they are, or to match detachment with even more severe distancing. Analytic contact is the moment in which analyst and patient or both parties of the couple achieve some degree of peace, stability, or integration in these areas or at least allow for the possibility of calm, change, and learning.
