there is too an undoubted influence within education itself (although the continuing focus on a product based approach to education may show that Roger has had little influence. The jury is still out) the focus on the emotion side of human life which psychoanalysis precipitated paved the way for Roger' interest in a learner-centred approach -built on his client-centred chemotherapeutic work. this in turn coincided with the thinking of Gardner 1983;1999 in developing interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence -the ability to interact with other and the ability to look inwards on ourselves. Gardner himself attributes his work on personal intelligence to the writings of Freud and James. By the 1990s the neuroscientific work of Joseph LeDoux 1998 and the popular writing of Daniel Goleman 1996 on emotional intelligence emotional well-being firmly on the educational map.