Understanding Melanie Klein’s Two Positions

This webinar is intended for counselling practitioners and other interested professionals.

Understanding Melanie Klein’s Two Positions

Join us for an engaging CPD session exploring Melanie Klein’s foundational psychoanalytic theory of the Paranoid-Schizoid and Depressive positions, listening to a discussion with Louisa and Sam about them. This workshop is ideal for those therapists seeking to deepen their understanding of early object relations, internal anxieties, and the developmental processes that shape the therapeutic encounter. Through discussion and clinical reflection, we’ll consider how Klein’s ideas continue to inform contemporary practice across modalities. This is a seminar and will not require participation from the audience, but questions will be welcome.

Key Learning Outcomes:

· Develop a clear understanding of Klein’s two positions and their theoretical significance

· Explore how these positions manifest in clinical work and client presentations

· Reflect on the relevance of Klein’s ideas in contemporary therapeutic settings

· Enhance confidence in applying object relations theory to case formulation and intervention.

About the speakers

Louisa Grundy and Sam Elderfield are experienced practitioners with successful private practices in Hertfordshire. They are both supervisors and over the years have also worked within different areas of the profession: within secondary schools, University, GP surgeries and AQP work as well as Employment Assisted Programmes and Private Health Care and Education.