The supervision of students in psychoanalytic training who have previously been trained as psychotherapists

The author was first invited in 1955 to take part in the training of psychoanalysts in the British Society. At that time it was made quite clear to them as training analysts that they should only accept as patients, who wished to be trained as psychoanalysts, those accepted as psychoanalytic students by the Training Committee and that they should not take part in “training arrangements” for any of the Psychotherapy Training Courses (BAP) that were being started. During the 1950s other “trainings” in psychotherapy started to be developed. The Institute supported the training in child psychotherapy under Anna Freud at the Hampstead Clinic, provided that it did not claim to train psychoanalysts. The Tavistock Clinic soon followed with their own training in child psychotherapy, under the direction of John Bowlby. The Education Committee agreed in January 1976 that the Conference on Training would take place on Friday evening and Saturday morning, on 26-27 March 1976.