ABSTRACT
I am sitting in the familiar surrounding of the bright, pink-walled, turn-ofthe-century community clinic; upstairs is the dentist and downstairs the GP clinic. In the next room babies scream as they are plunged into the hard, cold weighing scales; others lie warm-lapped, making sense of their new world whilst their mothers do similarly, talking with the health visitors. I think of Dilys Daws standing at those ubiquitous weighing scales and think how my fellow child psychotherapists have longed to join her there (Daws 1985).
