The lines of inquiry that converge in the object relations perspective of the British School foreshadow some of the most fundamental concerns in contemporary psychoanalysis and depth psychology, and clinical social workers are increasingly familiar with the developmental formulations and relational concepts that have distinguished the work of the Middle Group or Independent Tradition in Great Britain. The seminal contributions of D. W. Winnicott, Michael Balint, John Bowlby, Marion Milner, and Harry Guntrip have informed psychoanalytic understandings of self experience, personality, psychopathology, and the therapeutic endeavor, and clinicians are discovering