ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the very substantial contributions that Donald Meltzer made to the development of the Tavistock Clinic's training course concerning the psychoanalytic therapy of children and young people. It discusses upon Meltzer's direct teaching activities, as supervisor and seminar leader in the period between the late 1950s and the mid-1970s. His identity was hidden by the uniform of a psychiatrist attached to the armed services of the United States, which had a large presence here in the 1950s. In the 1955 paper, Meltzer was making intellectual variations to the structural model of the mind without much trace of emotional conviction. Thereafter, nearly all Meltzer's writings are characterized by the feature of interrelating theory and clinical experience. From the individual supervisions of a number of qualified child psychotherapists, Meltzer became familiar with the strengths and weaknesses. In the group teaching events, which continued for most of the 1960s, he set about remedying some of the weaknesses.
