Members, guests, and Dr. Becker's family: We welcome you to this memorial meeting. Ted Becker was involved with child analysis from his earliest student days and throughout his long career. He was analyzed by Berta Bornstein, one of the pioneers of child analysis, who was later one of his teachers and supervisors. His own work was strongly influenced by his association with her, and her work remains central to our field.

In the early days of child analysis, there was a split between Melanie Klein and Anna Freud. Miss Freud understood the transference to develop slowly and its interpretation to come later in analysis. She gave central importance to the ego in the analysis of children (and adults as well). Berta Bornstein, an early colleague of Miss Freud,