innovative work on the development of children since 1965 and
affiliated with the University of Toronto, which grants degrees
to those trained at this Institute to the Ph.D. level.

The author wrote a text in 1984, The Clinical Psychology of
Melanie Klein, and, with his associates, founded a journal in
1983, first called The Journal of the Melanie Klein Society, and
later, in 1990, called Melanie Klein and Object Relations. Dr
Weininger's interest, knowledge, and experience have bridged
educational and clinical domains. With dedicated efforts to
contribute to the appreciation and development of the applica-
tions of Melanie Klein work to understanding and helping
children with difficulties, in 1989 he published Children's
Phantasies: The Shaping of Relationships and, in 1992, Melanie
Klein: From Theory to Reality.

Out of the welter of "phantasies" during development,
discriminations lead to the recognition of fantasy, sensation,
perception, conceptions related to concurrent development of
feelings of love, hate, grief, fear, guilt, mourning, along with
maturation related to actions with the world of living and
non-living objects. Gradually, over the last century or so, the
importance of vicissitudes of instincts and, more recently,
of the history of waking and sleeping life, and that of early
prenatal and postnatal development, dreams, daydreams,
plans, and actions, and the awesome role of these interrelated
complexities, have become increasingly recognized. In this book
Dr Weininger describes the uses made of a model of short-
term therapy that takes this richness and complexity of the
development of psychic life into account. These treatments are
profusely illustrated, and there are as well vignettes that
point to episodes in longer-term treatment. The creative work
with a small group of children, day students in a treatment
centre for difficult young children, shows a new respect for the
way a gradual introduction to short periods of a new type of
atmosphere of treatment can over time have a positive and
profound effect on the group. Anyone beginning child analysis,
astounded by the way a child can begin and continue to
make use of what happens in the confidentiality and containing
security of such new situations, will be grateful indeed for Dr
Weininger's courage in attempting to work with small groups
and for telling us, in this book, about the results of this work.

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