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Our Nestor in the psychotherapy and psychoanalysis of children and the Honorary member of the Norwegian Psychoanalytic Society, Fiffi Piene, has passed away.
Fiffi Piene was a Kristiansund girl and so fond of children that she went to Oslo to obtain her master's degree in psychology in order to pursue this interest professionally.
When she joined Nic Waal and the group of pioneers around her — which resulted in the founding of the Nic Waal Institute in 1953 — she took with her important clinical experience from Alines spedbarnshjem (a home for infants), from working in public health centres and from school psychology. In fact, she was Norway's first school psychologist.
In 1954, she was approved of as one of the first three Norwegian child analysts within the Norwegian Psychoanalytic Society. Shortly after this, she travelled to Margaret Mahler's institute in the USA and after returning the following year, completed her regular analytic education in Oslo.
She also became one of the pioneers of our young society and was rapidly given teaching responsibilities and central positions of trust in the Norwegian Psychoanalytic Society.
As training analyst and teacher of psychoanalysis with adults as well as children throughout the years, Fiffi Piene had had a strong impact on our society. As Norway's first child analyst, she initiated an important project after having been asked to teach a group of prospective child analysts. This led to many important developments: for instance, it resulted in the founding of a separate Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children in Norway.
Fiffi Piene made use of her talents in the ways she wanted to. As teacher, supervisor and training analyst of candidates in psychoanalytic training, she played a decisive role in our milieu for several decades, just as she did as a friend and colleague during a long professional life.