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The Hampstead Clinic was asked to help set up a training in child psychoanalysis at the Centre for Childhood Studies at Ein Shams University in Cairo. To date three teachers from Hampstead have gone to Cairo to give seminars. Reports of the previous two visits by Rose Edgcumbe and Elspeth Earle appear in volume 3, part 1 of this journal. The third visit took place from 28 March - 21 April, 1980. Unfortunately, due to lack of funds, it was the last visit for the first group of students undergoing the training. The Director of the Centre for Childhood Studies, Dr Kamilia Abdel Fattah, along with Miss Faiza Kamel, will advertise for a new group of students in the autumn. If Dr Fattah can obtain adequate funding, she will again ask for teachers from the Hampstead Clinic.
The teaching pattern on the third visit was similar to that of the previous two. Seminars were held from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. six days a week, for slightly over two weeks; a total of 39 hours' teaching. There were fewer attendance problems during this period of teaching. It seemed that the more highly motivated students had remained in the group while the less committed had left the course.
The students came to the course after work and travelled long distances in crowded and intolerable conditions to get to the university. The afternoon temperature was often quite high and dust storms added to the less than pleasant conditions in which the seminars took place. The students were those who had attended the second seminar, with the addition of one doctor who had joined the group at the end of Dr Earle's visit. Only one student had no child patients in therapy. The other students had at least three children and at most eight children in treatment. The children ranged in age from five years to late adolescence and came from various social backgrounds, although the majority tended to have histories of early deprivation. There had been a gap of one year since the last visit of a staff member from the Hampstead C