Who is the psychoanalyst after which psychoanalyst author and trainer John Steiner has been called "a prolific London post-Kleinian"?
John Steiner (psychoanalyst) John Steiner is a psychoanalyst, author and trainer at the British Psychoanalytical Society. Steiner, a 'prolific London post-Kleinian', is best known for his conceptions of the "pathological organisation" or the "psychic retreat"...between the paranoid-schizoid and the depressive positions'. His book "Psychic Retreats" describes a treatment methodology for patients with complex defence mechanisms that are difficult to treat with conventional psychoanalysis.
René Allendy René Félix Allendy (] ; 19 February 1889 – 12 July 1942) was a French psychoanalyst and homeopath.