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I devote all the time I can to the purpose of learning something about small children.
Ernst and Marianne Kris, with their two children, arrived in New York in late 1940 after a two-year interim period in London, following their emigration from Vienna in 1938. Prior to becoming members of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NYPSI) both had taught courses as guest lecturers. In June 1943, Marianne Kris was simultaneously elected to membership in the NYPSI and its Educational Committee, while Ernst Kris was elected to Honorary membership in November of that year.1 Although Kris had enjoyed a distinguished career as an art historian and psychoanalyst before arriving in New York, once here his work took on new dimensions. He founded and edited The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, organized longitudinal research studies at the Yale Child Study Center, advocated for the importance of research into infant and child development for advancing psychoanalytic theory and technique, and undertook research into the creative process in young children. At the NYPSI, he served as teacher and training analyst, as discussant of thirty papers presented at its scientific meetings, and as Director of the Gifted Adolescent Project. With Heinz Hartmann and Rudolph Loewenstein, he co-authored six papers on psychoanalytic drive theory and ego psychology. This essay will explore his myriad roles and activities.