In the last decade a diverse group of theoreticians and clinicians have joined to form a loose body that broadly place themselves under the umbrella of ‘relational psychoanalysis’. Many of these people have argued that we are in the midst of a huge paradigm shift in the way psychoanalysis is conceptualized, and article after article in the main psychoanalytic journals has hailed the emergent relational tradition as radical and new, revolutionizing the way psychoanalysis should be viewed and practiced. Even the more traditional bastions of American ego-psychology have had to take account of these developments, and journals and books have proliferated. Yet, oddly enough these developments seem to have passed unnoticed within the British psychoanalytic scene, including child psychotherapy,