ABSTRACT
There are in the British Psychoanalytical Society three groups: the Contemporary Freudian Group, the Group of Independent Psychoanalysts, and the Contemporary Kleinians, and they have been in being since the end of the Second World War. All committees within the British Psychoanalytical Society have to have these three groups represented, and the Presidency of the Society has to rotate through these three groups. The author wrote couples of papers including "The analyst's act of freedom as agent of therapeutic change" and "Phantasy effects that which it represents" were slotted into the canon of the Independents' scripture. The former paper was included in Kohon's book, The British School of Psychoanalysis—The Independent Tradition, and also given a commentary in Rayner's book, The Independent Mind in British Psychoanalysis. The Independents need knowledge of psychotic processes; they need the Kleinian insight into primitive phantasy life.
