This hefty volume follows on the 1989-1991 publication of Bob Hinshelwood's A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought and, although it was the result of the original author's realization that a third edition was needed, which would respond and do justice to the great expansion of contemporary Kleinian thinking since his original publication, it soon became a new dictionary in its own right, this time conceived and written by a small group of senior Kleinian analysts.

The authors, Elisabeth Bott Spillius, Jane Milton, Penelope Garvey, Cyril Couve and Deborah Steiner have retained the original structure of the first