Acknowledgements

First and foremost we would like to thank those who opened up the world of child psychoanalysis to us: Serge Lebovici, René Diatkine, James Gammill and Hanna Segal. Their clinical and theoretical experience and the diversity of their respective viewpoints have been very precious indeed.

We would also like to thank those who were kind enough to let us visit them, and to share their experience and reminiscences: Simone Decobert, Yolanda Gampel, Ilse Hellmann, Betty Joseph, Serge Lebovici, Sidonia Mehler, David and Estela Rosenfeld, Anne-Marie Sandler, Hanna Segal, Frances Tustin and Rodolfo Urribarri.

We were much stimulated and helped in our research by the group of child psychoanalysts who meet regularly at Françoise Caille’s house, some of whom make up the Editorial Committee of the Journal de la psychanalyse de l’enfant. The seminar on the history of child psychoanalysis that we held in Bordeaux was also very useful. Pascale Duhamel, Mireille Fleury, Dominique Dujols and Marcel Boix were particularly helpful in assisting us to collect a large number of documents.

We are indebted to the young child psychiatrists and psychoanalysts and the members of the psychiatric teams who work with us for their questions, their curiosity and their remarks, which led us to get involved in this history in the first place. This history is also theirs in part.

Danièle Guilbert of Bayard Editions was of constant and warm assistance with her careful reading of our text and her criticisms, which were helpful and to the point.

We are very grateful to Dr Hanna Segal, to Mrs Elizabeth B.Spillius, to Professor J.Sandler and to Mrs Anne-Marie Sandler for having made this publication possible and for having efficaciously helped us with the difficult task of translating this book into English. Thanks are owed especially to Mrs E.B.Spillius who has read our manuscript carefully, and patiently revised our English.

We should like to acknowledge the financial help of the Melanie Klein Trust, the Anna F