In this workshop we reported on the work of our research group whose members are Mrs Anne Hurry, Mrs Cynthia Carlson, Mrs Audrey Gavshon, Miss Viviane Green, Miss Pat Radford and Dr Miriam Steele. The group was initiated by Mrs Hurry, originally as a forum for discussing perplexing clinical material. The group's remit soon broadened to include perspectives from some of the Centre's ongoing research work. Specifically, we attempted to draw upon some of the major findings to emerge from the Centre's work on the efficacy of child psychoanalysis1 and intergenerational patterns of attachment2. We hoped that by sharing and chronicling examples fromour clinical work, these might serve to