TO BECOME HUMAN IS PREDICATED ON HUMAN CONTACT AND INTERACTION. While the morphology of the human species is the result of an evolutionary process, the psychological development of each individual is essentially determined and stabilized by a social process, by a system that welds organism and surround together. The contraposition of individual and environment tends either to overstate the individual's independence from his social matrix or to understate the dependence of the individual on the social envelope, be this the family or the wider social ambience. This has become eminently clear from infant research which has taught us to conceive of the mother-infant unit as a bonding of infant and surround or, in other words, as a system (Sander et al., 1975). Epigrammatically, Winnicott has expressed this thought by saying: "There is no such thing as a baby" (James, 1970, p. 81).