Squiggles and Spaces Revisiting the Work of D. W. Winnicott, Volume 2 [Paperback]

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the publication of D.W. Winnicott's Playing and Reality , a number of organizations - including the University of Milan, the European Federation for Psychoanalysis, the Italian Association of Psychoanalysis, the Peruvian Psychoanalytic Society, together with the Squiggle Foundation and Winnicott Trust - organized a major international conference on Winnicott's work, entitled The Psyche-Soma: from Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis . Derived from that conference, Squiggles and Spaces looks to update and elaborate Winnicott's theoretical insights and clinical findings.

Volume two distinguishes itself from the first volume primarily in two ways. On the one hand, a significant portion of the book is dedicated to a comparative study of Winnicott s work and that of his noteworthy contemporaries (or near-contemporaries). Among these are Ferenczi, Balint, Tustin, Bion and C.G. Jung. The second feature of this volume is the wide array of essays by Italian psychoanalysts working in the tradition of Winnicott.

Part 1 - On Babies, Mothers and Fathers.

1. The Interface between Mother and Baby.

2. Self-states and The Maternal Integration Function.

3. reparation in Respect of Mother's Organized Defence Against Depression.

4. What about The Parents?

5. The Father as Function, Environment and Object

Part 2 - Illusion, Creativity and The Self.

6. Illusion and Reality in The Work of D. W. Winnicott.

7. Interminable Illusion.

8. Psychotherapy and The Squiggle Game, a sophisticated Game of Hide-and-seek.

9. The Parent-child Relationship in Italian renaissance Painting

Part 3 - Winnicott and Clinical Theory a) Trauma and psychosis.

10. Cumulative Trauma, When all Does not go Well in The Everyday Life of The Infant.