Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “We murder to dissect,” wrote Wordsworth, referring to excessive study killing our appreciation of the wonders of ...

Meanwhile, back in the consulting room… For the second time this year, the Almeida Theater is reviving a play focused around psychoanalysis. Nicholas Wright’s 1988 three-hander drama, “Mrs. Klein,” is ...

Mothers and daughters on the stage were given a whole new twist by Nicholas Wright in his wonderfully skilful play Mrs Klein, first seen at the National Theatre in 1988 but now performed all over the ...

In the second half, the play fitfully flares into dramatic life: Zoe Waites as Melitta and Clare Higgins as Mrs Klein Credit: Photo: ALASTAIR MUIR These days, a visit to the Almeida sometimes feels ...

Melanie Klein was a pioneering psychologist in the Twenties and Thirties. Iconoclastic and theoretically adventurous, she made an especially significant contribution to the understanding of children’s ...

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Nicholas Wright’s “Mrs. Klein” contains several references to the epiphany-like moment in psychotherapy when things suddenly “slot into place.” Largely because Wright’s play — based on the late ...