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In this enthusiastic book Otto Weininger tries to set out the essentials of Kleinian theory in a form that will appeal to therapists who are unfamiliar with her work. He is a child psychotherapist, the director of a school for emotionally disturbed children and adolescents, and a research worker in the field of parent-infant interactions, and it is to the various types of worker in the field of child development, especially in the United States and Canada, that his book is especially addressed.
There is something refreshing and engaging in the way Weininger approaches his task, even though his effort to expound Klein's ideas is not entirely successful, partly, as James Grotstein says in a comprehensive Foreword, because Klein's approach does not appeal either to ego psychologists or to self psychologists, but partly also because Weininger's exposition is at times dense and difficult to follow.
There are five chapters: Chapter 1 on the paranoid-schizoid position; Chapter 2 on the depressive position; Chapter 3 on the Oedipal phase; Chapter 4 on elective mutism in children; and Chapter 5, an outline of certain aspects on Melanie Klein's infant development theory.