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This book is unusual in that it gives an up to date, comprehensive account of the development of Kleinian thinking and practice in a comparatively short volume. Yet it is by no means a ‘potted’ version of Klein. It earns its title by the presentation of a series of clinical vignettes, in more or less chronological sequence, from Melanie Klein's earliest writings, to her later work and that of her followers, especially Segal, Rosenfeld, Bion and Betty Joseph. The author intends the present volume with its clinical emphasis to complement his more theoretical Dictionary of Kleinian Thought . Thus it differs from earlier introductions and expositions of Klein (Segal, 1964; Meltzer, 1978) in its wide span of clinical material from a variety of analysts, including later developments in Kleinian practice and technique highlighted by Spillius (1988). In its method of approach it has something in common with Wittenberg's Psychoanalytic Insight and Relationships (1970), for it illustrates key Kleinian concepts by means of clinical material.