Term ID: T3097

Kleinian Theory

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Melanie Klein's psychoanalytic theory emphasizing early object relations, splitting, and the paranoid-schizoid position in development.
Example: Understanding how infants initially split objects into all-good and all-bad categories before developing integrated representations.

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Reference: Klein (1946)