ABSTRACT
By the presence of the Centre’s young patients and their families, together with their therapists, the Centre’s own symbolic “children”: every cohort of trainees labouring away full-time for four to five years, with nearly all the training on site, Maresfield Gardens, a home for this international group of committed young people. The atmosphere of the Hampstead Clinic and the early Anna Freud Centre are movingly revived each year at the AFC November Colloquium, where a group of alumni gather. In 2003 Freud Centre’s board reluctantly took the decision that heavily subsidizing the training was taking a large proportion of its income, raised with difficulty for other purposes, treatment, and research, and that as most trainees by then went on to work in the NHS, the NHS should meet its responsibility to fund the training.
