ABSTRACT
The sanguine assumption that these aims can be readily achieved through the training- and control-analysis of psycho-analytical students is not borne out by the facts; as witness, the frequent schisms developing in psycho-analytical groups. The impact of these new ideas on the British Psycho-Analytical Society may be said to have taken effect roughly about 1926. Up to that time the Society was, on the whole, a conventional group undisturbed by schisms and controversies and, perhaps for that very reason, rather uninspired. This new development may in course of time influence the trend of psycho-analytical thought in Great Britain. Psycho-analysis in Britain was not, as in the United States of America, an offshoot of psychiatric activity. Simultanously, with the development of this psychiatric bent, psycho-analysis has begun to play a larger part in the practice of child guidance. Unfortunately a new branch of 'child-psychiatry' threatens to offset any advantages that might accrue from this logical and essential development of psycho-analytic work.
