The Myersons' Muse

Writers Julie and Jonathan Myerson splashing their son’s troubles all over the nationals to promote their work reminds me of one of the most haunting tales of mother/child animosity. When I first came across psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, I was fascinated by her work. It wasn’t until later that I discovered the price she paid for using her kids as copy. When Melanie Klein was buried in 1960, her daughter Melitta Schmideberg was across town delivering a lecture wearing brilliantly bright red boots, "perhaps the better to dance on her mother’s grave", it is said.