Elizabeth Spillius obituary

Psychoanalyst who brought the ideas of Melanie Klein to a new generation of analysts, therapists, social workers and studentsWhen Elizabeth Spillius, who has died aged 92, first read Sigmund Freud as a 16-year-old, she “found his attitude to women so off-putting” that she “didn’t read very far”. Exploring the work of Melanie Klein 11 years later in 1951, however, was another matter. Elizabeth herself recalled thinking: “This is it – the approach for me!&