Winnicott His Life And Work

by Rodman, F. Robert

• ISBN13: 9780738209647
• ISBN10: 0738209643
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-22
• Publisher: Balance

Summary

This bold and witty, yet scholarly biography is the first to trace the full life and work of this highly influential and brilliant pediatrician-turned-analyst. This insightful story probes the roots in Winnicott's personal life of his influential concepts, such as the "holding environment" so crucial to psychotherapy and the "transitional object" known to every parent as the "security blanket." His astonishing career involved many of the great figures in psychoanalysis and psychology, not just Melanie Klein and Anna Freud, but the whole eccentric Bloomsbury scene including the Stracheys, R. D. Laing, and the controversial Pakistani prince and analyst, Masud Khan. For anyone interested not only in psychology and psychoanalysis but also in human nature and the great figures who have explored it, this book will be passionately absorbing.

Author Biography

F. Robert Rodman, M.D., a leading psychoanalyst, is the author of Not Dying ("A superbly intelligent, courageous testament"- San Francisco Examiner) and Keeping Hope Alive, as well as the editor of a much-admired volume of Winnicott's letters, The Spontaneous Gesture. He lives and practices in Beverly Hills, California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Chronology	xiii
Part 1
``The Introductory Chapter to a Book''	3	(8)
Origins and Early Life	11	(12)
Boarding School	23	(8)
Cambridge	31	(7)
Medical School	38	(8)
Hospital Work	46	(6)
Alice Taylor	52	(18)
Analysis and Marriage	70	(7)
Joan Riviere	77	(12)
Clare Britton	89	(17)
Melanie Klein	106	(26)
Marion Milner	132	(10)
``Human Contact with External Reality'': 1945--52	142	(41)
Part 2
Regression: 1953--54	183	(20)
Masud Khan	203	(11)
``We Analysts Want to Be Eaten''	214	(13)
Patients Who May Kill Psychoanalysts	227	(18)
Melanie, Donald, and Clare	245	(19)
The True and False Self and ``The Right Not to Communicate''	264	(20)
The Ever-Deepening Journey	284	(20)
Female/Male; Being/Doing	304	(19)
``The Use of an Object''	323	(26)
Endings and Beginnings	349	(25)
Epilogue: Not Less Than Everything	374	(7)
Notes	381	(38)
The Works of D. W. Winnicott	419	(20)
Permissions	439	(2)
Index	441	(20)
About the Author	461