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Kleinian
Updated on 04/19/2018
adj.
denoting or in accordance with the theories and methods of the school of psychoanalysis founded by Melanie Klein, including concepts such as
internalization
,
object relations
, the
depressive position
,
idealization
, and the
paranoid-schizoid position
.
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