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I am writing in response to Dr. Brian Greenfield's article in the spring 2004 issue of this journal, “Child Psychoanalysis in Montreal,” in which he also refers to the current situation in Toronto and to Mme Monique Meloche's discussion of it. I would like to point out two omissions. The first is that there is the Toronto Child Psychoanalytic Program, which has recently celebrated its twentieth year in existence. The training requires a four-time-a-week analysis of its candidates, has weekly (until recently, twice-weekly) theoretical evenings over a four-year period, as well as lengthy infant/child observation seminars. Its candidates see three cases, each three times a week, with 80 hours of supervision for one of the cases, and 40 for two. My hope in pointing this out is that we can come to think together about working with children, as well as considering the place of observation within various trainings.
The second omission is in not mentioning the contribution of Dr. Otto Weininger, professor of psychology at oise, University of Toronto, who worked with children up until his sad death a little more than a year ago. Dr. Weininger taught and supervised from a Kleinian perspective, authored Melanie Klein: From Theory to Reality; Being and Not Being: Clinical Applications of the Death Instinct; Children's Phantasies: The Shaping of Relationships; View from the Cradle: Children's Emotions in Everyday Life, and for many years edited the Journal of Melanie Klein and Object Relations, which was largely dedicated to work with children, and published foremost child analytic thinkers in it.