ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an historical and theoretical description and explanation of the "Group of Independent Psychoanalysts" and shows that how the concepts "inner world" and "environment" are by and large understood by them. It examines some of the theoretical and clinical ideas held over the years by various authors about their interrelationship. The chapter describes some of the arguments that were made against the concept of the "inner world of objects". It explores some of the theoretical and clinical ideas that people had then and since about ideas relating to the "inner world", starting with some of the criticisms voiced in the 1940s. Problems of interpretation concerning matters to do with the interrelation between the inner world and the environment, was the subject of a conference given by members of the Group of Independent Psychoanalysts of the British Psychoanalytical Society.
