title: RETHINKING THE ROLE OF SMALL-GROUP COLLABORATORS AND ADVERSARIES IN THE LONDON KLEINIAN DEVELOPMENT (1914-1968).
abstract: The authors historically situate the London Kleinian development in terms of the small-group collaborations and adversaries that arose during the course of Melanie Klein's career. Some collaborations later became personally adversarial (e.g., those Klein had with Glover and Schmideberg); other adversarial relationships forever remained that way (with A. Freud); while still other long-term collaborations became theoretically contentious (such as with Winnicott and Heimann). After the Controversial Discussions in 1944, Klein marginalized one group of supporters (Heimann, Winnicott, and Riviere) in favor of another group (Rosenfeld, Segal, and Bion). After Klein's death in 1960, Bion maintained loyalty to Klein's ideas while quietly distancing his work from the London Klein group, immigrating to the United States in 1968.
authors.affiliation: Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of California, Los Angeles, and a guest member of the British Psychoanalytical Society.
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Aguayo
authors.affiliation: Psychoanalytic candidate at the New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles.
authors.forename: Agnes
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Regeczkey
mesh_terms: D006126:Group Processes; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008131:London; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history*; D012952:Societies
keywords: Anna Freud; British Psychoanalytical Society; Controversial Discussions; D. W. Winnicott; History of psychoanalysis; Joan Riviere; Kleinian object relations theory; Melanie Klein; Paula Heimann; W. R. Bion; World War II; small-group phenomena