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Michel Haag describes how he and his wife, Geneviève, came to London in 1971 for the English-speaking Pre-Congress of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, and attended the live supervision of an infant observation given by Mrs Bick as part of a programme on applications of psychoanalysis. Geneviève Haag was instantly convinced that Bick's approach to bodily anxieties provided the tools that would enable her to extend her work with autistic children. Michel Haag, on the other hand, writes that he had really wanted to hear Winnicott, and went to Bick's presentation as a second choice; but once they had heard the