Winnicott on the Child

by Winnicott, D. W.

• ISBN13: 9780738207643
• ISBN10: 0738207640
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-19
• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books

Summary

This delightful book presents a selection of D. W. Winnicott's best writing about children. The remarkable, enduring essays from Babies and Their Mothers and Talking to Parents are here combined with several hard-to-find gems of insight into the world of the child. Each piece was written for a wide audience of parents, childcare professionals, and teachers. In his empathic and witty way, Winnicott ranges over such timeless topics as the mother/infant relationship, trust, instilling a sense of security, negativism, jealousy and moral development. Now, in one volume, anyone who cares about children can enjoy the wisdom of a man many consider to be the most important psychoanalyst since Freud.A Merloyd Lawrence Book

Author Biography

D. W. Winnicott (1896-1974), pediatrician and psychoanalyst, influenced several generations in the fields of child psychiatry, social work, and child development as well as psychoanalysis. He is known especially for his bold and brilliant imagination, and his unique, even poetic style.

Table of Contents

Part One: Babies and Their Mothers
Introduction	3	(6)
Benjamin Spock
Editors' Preface	9	(2)
The Ordinary Devoted Mother	11	(8)
Knowing and Learning	19	(5)
Breast-feeding as Communication	24	(8)
The Newborn and His Mother	32	(11)
The Beginning of the Individual	43	(6)
Environmental Health in Infancy	49	(7)
The Contribution of Psychoanalysis to Midwifery	56	(9)
Dependence in Child Care	65	(5)
Communication Between Infant and Mother, and Mother and Infant, Compared and Contrasted	70	(25)
Part Two: Talking to Parents
On Reading Winnicott	85	(4)
T. Berry Brazelton
Editors' Preface	89	(6)
Health Education through Broadcasting	95	(4)
For Stepparents	99	(5)
What Do We Know about Babies as Cloth Suckers?	104	(4)
Saying ``No''	108	(14)
Jealousy	122	(17)
What Irks?	139	(16)
Security	155	(5)
Feeling Guilty	160	(7)
The Development of a Child's Sense of Right and Wrong	167	(4)
Now They Are Five	171	(7)
The Building Up of Trust	178	(15)
Part Three: The Child in the Family
Introduction	191	(2)
Stanley I. Greenspan
Advising Parents	193	(9)
The Mother's Contribution to Society	202	(5)
The Family and Emotional Maturity	207	(8)
The Development of the Capacity for Concern	215	(6)
The Child in the Family Group	221	(11)
Children Learning	232	(7)
Original Source of Each Chapter	239	(6)
The Works of D. W. Winnicott	245	(2)
Index	247	(18)
Biographical Note	265