British Independent Group (psychoanalysis)

The Independent or Middle Group of British analysts represents one of the three distinct sub-schools of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and 'developed what is known as the British independent perspective, which argued that the primary motivation of the child is object-seeking rather than drive gratification'.[1] The 'Independent group...is strongly associated with the concept of countertransference as well as with a seemingly pragmatic, anti-theoretical attitude to psychoanalysis'.[2]

  1. ^ Glen C. Gabbard, Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (London 2010) p. 12
  2. ^ Lesley Caldwell, Winnicott and the Psychoanalytic Tradition (London 2007) p. 144