ABSTRACT
The author meets Dr Munro at a garden party given by Dugmore and Elizabeth Hunter in the summer of 1956. He remembers this meeting with the precision with which one remembers an important encounter. Many people spoke to the author at the garden party, but Dr Munro communicated on a different level. She seemed to emerge from the general background and to metaphorically hold out a hand and pull into the party and into the present. Since 1956, the author had met Dr Munro only rarely at meetings and conferences, but somewhere was preserved the experience of her understanding of what has to be contended with when life is threatened. The analytic work with Dr Munro was of necessity specifically concerned with the whole process of mourning. Of particular importance was her strength of purpose, which held firmly and unrelentingly to this task in all its aspects, and firmly within the analytic situation.
