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Dr Payne was in the Chair and 18 Members and Associates were present (Miss Sharpe, Dr Franklin, Dr Winnicott, Miss Evans, Mrs Milner, Major Bowlby, Mrs Riviere, Dr Heimann, Dr K. Stephen, Major A. Stephen, Dr Herford, Major Rickman, Dr Taylor, Mr Money-Kyrle, Mrs Klein, Dr Usher, Miss Schwarz, Dr Wilson). Six Candidate-guests were present, one guest was present by invitation.
The Chairman announced that the minutes of the last meeting were not yet ready and asked the meeting whether Members wished the whole of the free discussion to be circulated, or papers only and a summary of the free discussion. It was decided to circulate a summary of the free discussion.
In this brief summary I should like to refer back to the main aims of my paper in the ‘Emotional Life of the Infant’; I attempted to place my concept of the depressive position into a wider perspective, correlating it in more detail with well-established theory on the one hand, and on the other hand with the part it plays in the whole of the emotional development during the first year.