Elizabeth Jones, however, was a “Kleinian”—she practiced an offshoot of Freudian analysis developed by Melanie Klein, an Austrian psychoanalyst who immigrated to London in the late 1920s. Unlike Freud (and later, his daughter Anna), Klein believed that people with psychosis could benefit from analysis and that the necessary transference would develop. It was her theory that psychotic individuals are filled with (even driven by) great anxiety, and that the way to provide relief is to focus directly on the deepest sources of that anxiety.
