Reading Winnicott

Editor : Lesley Caldwell, Editor : Angela Joyce

Part of New Library of Psychoanalysis Teaching series - more in this series

Reading Winnicott

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : January 2011
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 312
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 29034
  • ISBN 13 : 9780415415958
  • ISBN 10 : 0415415950
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Reading Winnicott brings together a selection of papers by the psychoanalyst and paediatrician Donald Winnicott, providing an insight into his work and charting its impact on the well being of mothers, babies, children and families. With individual introductions summarising the key features of each of Winnicott's papers this book not only offers an overview of Winnicott's work but also links it with Freud and later theorists. Areas of discussion include: observation of infants in a set situation; development of the capacity for concern; creativity and its origins theory; and importance of play. As such Reading Winnicott will be essential reading for all students wanting to learn more about Winnicott's theories and their impact on psychoanalysis and the wider field of mental health.

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'Re-investing in Winnicott through the scholarship and clinical acumen of two present day psychoanalysts and reading him through the data and the interpretation their text affords, offers the reader the benefit of a serious and impressive contribution, not, in my view, attempted so wide-rangingly or so comprehensively before.'
- Helen Taylor Robinson, From the Preface.

Contents:
The Observation Of Infants In A Set Situation (1941). Primitive Emotional Development (1945). Hate In The Countertransference (1947). Mind And Its Relation To The Psyche-Soma (1949). Transitional Objects And Transitional Phenomena (1951; 1971). Metapsychological And Clinical Aspects Of Regression Within The Psychoanalytical Set-Up (1954). The Theory Of The Parent--Infant Relationship (1960). The Development Of The Capacity For Concern (1963). Communicating And Not Communicating Leading To A Study Of Certain Opposites (1963). Fear Of Breakdown (1963). A Clinical Study Of The Effect Of A Failure Of The Average: Expectable Environment On A Child's Mental Functioning (1965). Playing: A Theoretical Statement (1968). The Use Of An Object And Relating Through Identifications (1968). Creativity And Its Origins (1971). References.

About the Editor(s)

Lesley Caldwell is a member of the British Psychoanalytic Association in private practice in London. She is an Honorary Professor in the Psychoanalysis Unit and Honorary Senior Research Associate in the Italian Department at University College, London. As Chair of the Squiggle Foundation (2000-2003) and editor of the Winnicott Studies Monograph Series (2000-2008), she published four edited collections on D. W. Winnicott. She has been an editor for the Winnicott Trust since 2002 and was the Chair of Trustees from 2008-2012. She has a continuing interest in psychoanalysis and the arts and has also written on film and the city of Rome.

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Angela Joyce is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She trained as a child analyst at the Anna Freud Centre where she has helped to pioneer psychoanalytic work with infants and parents, and is currently jointly leading the resurgence of child psychotherapy there. She also is an editor with the Winnicott Trust.

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