Others, however, consider that Symington's search for a positive interrelationship between psychoanalysis and religion leads inevitably to a certain moralism[REF] - psychoanalysis being what Adam Phillips called "a moral enterprise..that has to work hard not to become a moralistic one' [REF].
Robert M. Young took specific exception to what he saw as a pontifical element in Symington's study of W. R. Bion, considering that it could be attributed to the religious subtext in Symington's recent writings [REF].