It is increasingly less common to have the privilege of examining process notes of child analysts. This fact highlights the special treat that is presented in this publication of Melanie Klein's early clinical process notes. Bringing this task to fruition required the monumental effort of Claudia Frank, from Berlin, whose labors entailed countless hours in the London Archives in order to complete this task.

We owe profound gratitude to Frank, who presents us with Klein's handwritten notes (meticulously translated by Sophie Leighton and Sue Young), along with case material both unpublished and previously published. The material is offered not simply as process notes, but with Frank's explication and analysis of Klein's concepts, in historical perspective, of treating children and adolescents analytically. Many of Klein's