The Contributions of Berta Bornstein to Psychoanalysis—Introduction

THE PAPERS INCLUDED IN THIS SECTION HONOR THE MEMORY OF Berta Bornstein, who died on September 5, 1971. They were presented at the Memorial Meeting for Berta Bornstein, held at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute on October 16, 1973, a meeting that was organized by Ted E. Becker, M.D., Peter Blos, Ph.D., Sylvia Brody, Ph.D., Charles I. Feigelson, M.D., Gerard Fountain, M.D., Robert J. Kabcenell, M.D., Maurice S. Nadelman, and myself.

Although each contribution was presented and written by an individual analyst, the papers were from the beginning planned to be parts of a whole. In the preparation of their contributions, the authors not only relied on Berta Bornstein's publications but also had access to her unpublished lectures on the Technique of Child Analysis, now in the Archives of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. We are indebted to the Institute for allowing the contributors to use those lectures as the basis for their presentations.

From the wealth of Berta Bornstein's work on child analysis each contributor selected one or several aspects for discussion and illustration by case histories. Thus, taken together, these papers reflect the scope of Berta Bornstein's interests and contributions to