Reading Winnicott

by Caldwell; Lesley

• ISBN13: 9780415415941
• ISBN10: 0415415942
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-02-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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 the field of mental health.

Author Biography

Lesley Caldwell is a psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytic, Association. She has also worked as an academic, currently at UCL, for more than thirty years. She is the Chair of the Winnicott Trust and one of its editors. 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. xi
Winnicott chronology	p. xiii
Preface	p. xxi
General Introduction	p. 1
The observation of infants in a set situation (1941)	p. 32
Editors' Introduction	p. 33
Winnicott's Text	p. 36
Primitive emotional development (1945)	p. 54
Editors' Introduction	p. 54
Winnicott's Text	p. 57
Hate in the countertransference (1947/1949)	p. 70
Editors' Introduction	p. 71
Winnicott's Text	p. 73
Mind and its relation to the psyche-soma (1949)	p. 83
Editors' Introduction	p. 83
Winnicott's Text	p. 87
Transitional objects and transitional phenomena (1951; 1971)	p. 99
Editors' Introduction	p. 100
Winnicott's Text	p. 103
Metapsychological and clinical aspects of regression within the psycho-analytical set-up (1954)	p. 127
Editors' Introduction	p. 128
Winnicott's Text	p. 131
The theory of the parent-infant relationship (1960)	p. 147
Editors' Introduction	p. 148
Winnicott's Text	p. 152
The development of the capacity for concern (1963)	p. 170
EditorsÆ Introduction	p. 171
Winnicott's Text	p. 174
Communicating and not communicating leading to a study of certain opposites (1963)	p. 182
Editors' Introduction	p. 182
Winnicott's Text	p. 184
Fear of breakdown (1963?)	p. 197
Editors' Introduction	p. 197
Winnicott's Text	p. 200
A clinical study of the effect of a failure of the average expectable environment on a child's mental functioning (1965)	p. 209
Editors' Introduction	p. 210
Winnicott's Text	p. 214
Playing: a theoretical statement (1968)	p. 230
Editors' Introduction	p. 231
Winnicott's Text	p. 234
The use of an object and relating through identifications (1968)	p. 249
Editors' Introduction	p. 249
Winnicott's Text	p. 252
Creativity and its origins (1971)	p. 261
Editors' Introduction	p. 261
Winnicott's Text	p. 264
References	p. 283
Index	p. 297
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