ABSTRACT
Students were interviewed in groups, on the expectation that ideas would then be taken up and expanded by the members of the small group. Each group was asked two questions: "What do you expect to learn from undertaking an infant observation that might be relevant to you as future clinicians in training?"; "Was the fact that the course that you're on has an observation component something that attracted you to the course, or not?" The Anna Freud Centre (AFC) group had three students. None of the group felt that infant observation had been a specific attraction for them in choosing the course. The British Association of Psychotherapists (BAP) MSc group was composed of five students who had recently embarked on a two-year MSc and who had just begun or were about to begin infant observation. There were three students in the group from the Institute of Psychoanalysis.
