by Meira Likierman (Author) Melanie Klein remains one of the most important and influential figures in psychoanalysis. Klein pioneered the analysis of children and applied her insights on the infantile origins of unconscious drives to adult analysis.Meira Likierman's study is the best available introduction to Melanie Klein's thought and work. Author Biography Meira Likierman is a senior staff member at the Tavistock Clinic where she has been leader of the Psychoanalytic Studies MA program and the Doctorate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. She is a Fellow of the European Humanities Research Centre, Oxford University. Number of Pages: 208 Dimensions: 0.6 x 9.32 x 6.4 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2002