Melitta Rene Schmideberg-Klein (née Klein; 17 January 1904 – 10 February 1983) was a Slovakian-born British-American physician, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst.

Five years later, in response to rising anti-Semitism in Germany, Melitta and her husband joined her in London, where she became a British citizen.

Entering further analysis with Edward Glover,[5] she became a partisan with him in their vocal dispute with her own mother;[6] and later resigned from the Society in 1944[7] to concentrate on her work with juvenile delinquency.

[9] In the 1930s, Schmideberg published a series of articles in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, on subjects ranging from the asocial child to intellectual inhibitions.

[10] During The Blitz, Schmideberg published a set of observations on reactions to the air-raids in London, noting increases in localism, in drinking and (especially in women) sexual desire.