Reading Winnicott [Paperback]

Reading Winnicottbrings 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 Winnicotts papers this book not only offers an overview of Winnicotts work, but also links it with Freud and later theorists. Areas of discussion include:

• the relational environment and the place of infantile sexuality
• aggression and destructiveness
• illusion and transitional phenomena
• theory and practice of psychoanalysis of adults and children.

As such Reading Winnicottwill be essential reading for all students wanting to learn more about Winnicotts theories and their impact on psychoanalysis and the wider field of mental health.

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 Childs Mental Functioning (1965). Playing: A Theoretical Statement (1968). The Use of an Object and Relating Through Identifications (1968). Creativity and its Origins (1971).