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Having Completed My Training And Work At The Anna Freud Centre in 1984, I was recruited by Donald Cohen to join the faculty at the Yale Child Study Center. While we had extensive discussions during this process, I began to get a better sense of Donald with our first brisk walk across the Yale campus following a planning retreat for Center faculty members. As I tried to keep up with his determined, quick pace, I was introduced to Donald's intellectual intensity and spirit of scientific inquiry as he questioned me about Anna Freud's concept of developmental lines and about the use of the Hampstead Clinic's Diagnostic Profile. Discussing the difficulties of moving from child psychoanalytic concepts to systematic research, Donald issued what would become a very familiar challenge to action in his statement, “We have a lot to learn.” Around basic child analytic concepts, this challenge would lead to studies of play and the analytic interview with young children (Cohen et al., 1987; Marans, Mayes, Cohen, et al., 1990; Solnit, Cohen, and Neubauer, 1993) and a range of psycho-analytic