ABSTRACT
East Grinstead is hardly a location that is likely to feature in psychoanalytic history books, but it was there, in 1960, that an event took place which would alter the future of psychotherapy in the UK forever. Close observation of the field would reveal that psychoanalytic schools that believe trainees are infants and the school is there to love, nurture, and protect them will find it difficult to exercise authority as well as foster it in its graduates. The former, the moral educationalist, Winnicott, D. W. says, has “stolen the good from the developing individual child, and has then set up an artificial scheme for injecting this that has been stolen back into the child, and has called it ‘moral education’”. He goes on to say that “it is the ideas bound up with the organisation of moral education that deplete the individual of individual creativity”.
