MAKING SENSE TOGETHER New directions in Independent clinical thinking

If we start with the assumption that the papers in this section on technique by Nina Coltart, John Klauber, Adam Limentani and Neville Symington are all influential papers, this raises an interesting question: what do we mean when we describe a psychoanalytic paper as ‘influential’? A tradition is always in the process of becoming one, and the Independent tradition, initially the group of non-affiliated analysts of the British Psychoanalytical Society, is no exception to this rule. Considering the thirty years, then, since Gregorio Kohon first selected these four papers for publication, it will be instructive, I think,