This response endorses Seligman’s approach to the baby’s experience of an initial state of helplessness and Winnicott’s overall focus on health and normal development, through his careful reading of concern as a developmental stage. The bodily presence of the mother/caregiver enables the change from a biological to a psycho-biological baby. What is required is provision not containment as the basis of both early infant care and later analytic care. It questions the contemporary focus on thinking by referring to earlier work by Martin James. Living and its meaning is based in the beginnings of recognition of the other that accompanies recognition of the self, its dependence on time and the centrality of the body in the acquisition of concern.