Claudia Frank is a Supervising and Training Analyst of the German and the International Psychoanalytic Association, and works as a psychoanalyst in private practice. She spent 1988–2001 at the Department for Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics at the University of Tübingen, where she also completed her postdoctoral thesis. She is a Guest Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society. From 2016 to 2018, she was chair of the German Psychoanalytical Association’s Central Training Committee.

Her research focuses on the history, technique, and theory of Kleinian analysis with various publications, such as “Melanie Klein in Berlin. Her First Psychoanalyses of Children” (Routledge, 2009) and three papers with J. Milton (ed.), “Essential Readings from the Melanie Klein Archives” (Routledge, 2020), in addition to papers in applied psychoanalysis (psychosomatics; on Antigone; Giacometti; Morandi, etc.).

She was co-editor of Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse from 2002–2013. Together with Heinz Weiss, she is the editor of various books on Kleinian psychoanalysis in Germany. Currently, they are editing a German translation collection of Roger Money-Kyrle’s papers.