The Medical Section is a meeting place for those concerned with psychotherapy. We come from different schools, each of which has its own ways of thinking and its own ways of approaching patients, but over the years we have learnt to communicate extraordinarily well with each other, and looking back I can remember very few occasions when I have felt there to be a serious gulf between us. I do not mean there has been lack of disagreement, but there has been a growing understanding of each other's point of view. I am not sure that this is a reflexion of what is happening to psychology in general. Here I find that I am constantly going through a cyclical process, where I see rival schools coming together and I have rising hopes of unity, only to have these hopes dashed as new schools, new approaches, new conceptual models come into existence.