Just over 100 years ago, in the wake of the ending of the first world war and the subsequent social upheavals, Freud made his much quoted speech, prophesizing that clinics would be established where psychoanalysis would be free for those who could not afford the hitherto exclusively private treatment (Freud, 1918). Justifying this on the grounds of social justice, Freud also argued that such clinics would enhance the public acceptability of psychoanalysis which he saw as necessary to its future. Many such clinics flourished in the ensuing years, until defeated by fascism,