Donald Woods Winnicott

For the pioneering psychologist D.W. Winnicott, a creative approach to the world is what makes life worth living. But what are the origins of creativity and how can we develop it - whether within ourselves or in others? Not only does Playing and Reality address these questions, it also tackles many more that surround the fundamental issue of the individual self and its relationship with the outside world. In this landmark book of twentieth-century psychology he shows the reader how, through the attentive nurturing of creativity from the earliest years, every individual has the opportunity to enjoy a rich and rewarding cultural life. Today, as the 'hothousing' and testing of children begins at an ever-younger age, Winnicott's classic text is a more urgent and topical read than ever before.

Playing and Reality

One of the most gifted and creative psychoanalysts of his generation, D. W. Winnicott made lasting contributions to our understanding of the minds of children. His ideas have influenced the diverse pyschoanalytic schools of Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and Hans Kohut. But his reach extends far beyond professional circles: his talks to general audiences over the years won him enormous numbers of followers among parents and teachers who have found his obervations rich in penetrating insight. This collection brings together many of Winnicott's most important pieces, including previously unpublished talks and several essays from books and journals now difficult to obtain. They range widely in topic--from "The Concept of a Healthy Individual" and "The Value of Depression" to "Delinquency as a Sign of Hope"--and elucidate some of Winnicott's seminal ideas, such as the "transitional object" and the concept of false self. All convey Winnicott's vision of the ways in which the developing self interacts with the family and the larger society.

Essays by a Psychoanalyst

Home is where We Start from

D.W. Winnicott, a psychoanalyst of extraordinary grace and originality, left a body of work distinguished by fierce independence of mind, profound playfulness and technique, and passionate intelligence. Holding and Interpretation, a verbatim record of his sessions with a psychotic patient, vividly illustrates his enormous contribution to psychoanalytic theory and technique, his skill at “holding” the patient in the analytic session and providing guidance through sensitive interpretation. It is a rare working portrait of one of the true giants of psychoanalysis—“a very vast subject,” as he said, “which has the great charm of being really useful.”

Fragment of an Analysis

Holding and Interpretation

L'amour qu'une mère donne à son enfant est-il mesurable ? Pourquoi une mère devrait-elle être " suffisamment " bonne ? Trop d'amour est-il nuisible ? Trois textes du célèbre pédiatre et psychanalyste anglais - " La préoccupation maternelle primaire " (1956), et " La capacité d'être seul " (1958) - pour évoquer la curieuse folie qui prend toute mère enceinte lorsqu'elle fusionne avec son bébé ; la nécessité, pour que l'enfant devienne autonome, de ne pas le combler totalement ; et les bienfaits qu'il peut retirer d'un peu de solitude.

La mère suffisamment bonne

The Collected Works of D.W. Winnicott

Ishak Ramzy

Between the age of two and five, a little girl nicknamed âe~the Piggleâe(tm) âe" seriously disturbed by the birth of a younger sister âe" visited Dr Winnicott on sixteen occasions. A verbatim account of her visits is accompanied by illuminating excerpts from letters written to the analyst by the childâe(tm)s parents and an invaluable commentary by Dr Winnicott. This allows the reader to experience in detail the growth of a relationship between child and therapist and the gradual unfolding of the childâe(tm)s inner world. This classic piece of writing gives the reader the rare opportunity of being admitted to the intimacy of the consulting room and of studying the child and therapist at work. Of special value to professionals working with children, it will also fascinate anyone interested in how psychoanalysis works in practice.

An Account of the Psychoanalytic Treatment of a Little Girl

The Piggle

Œuvre la plus lue de Winnicott, cet ouvrage a pour point de départ l'article, devenu classique, que l'auteur a consacré aux "objets transitionnels". Puis il dévide son fil conducteur : une conception du jeu, par quoi il faut entendre une capacité de créer un espace intermédiaire entre le dehors et le dedans, capacité qui ne s'accomplit pas dans les jeux réglés, agencés comme des fantasmes ou des rituels, mais qui se situe à l'origine de l'expérience culturelle. Il énonce enfin une théorie des lieux psychiques - une nouvelle topique - dont nous commençons à apercevoir l'originalité, par rapport aussi bien à Freud qu'à Melanie Klein. Chemin faisant, le lecteur découvre comment une théorie psychanalytique - cet objet transitionnel dont nous ne saurions nous passer - s'invente, se cherche et se trouve. Ce n'est pas seulement son intelligence du discours, mais sa perception du réel, de soi-même et de l'autre, qui sont alors renouvelées.

l'espace potentiel

Jeu et réalité

Winnicott's ideas are scattered through numerous clinical papers and popular expositions. He made only one attempt to write an overview of his ideas, and this is it. The chapters in this book cover his perspective on the main issues in psychoanalytic theory such as psychosomatics, the Oedipus complex, infantile sexuality, the unconscious, the depressive position, and aggression.

Human Nature

Volume 5, introduced by Jennifer and Marcus Johns, covers the years 1955-1959, an extremely productive period of Winnicott's work in broadcasting, social work, child psychiatry and psychoanalysis. His two Tavistock publications, The Child and the Family, and The Child and the Outside World; and his first collection of essays, Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis, were published during this time. In 1955 he married Clare Britton, with whom he had been working during the previous decade, and in 1956 he became President of the British Psychoanalytical Society. It was in this capacity that many of the large number of letters in this volume were composed, relating to the work of his analytical colleagues and the integration of the different training and theoretical groups within the BPAS.

A collection of writings by one of the leading figures in psychoanalysis in the twentieth century addresses such topics as psychosomatic disorder, interpretation in analysis, and psychotherapy with children and adolescents

Psycho-analytic Explorations

Der Anfang ist unsere Heimat. Essays zur gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung des Individuums.

Volume eight, 1967-68, is introduced by the eminent British child psychotherapist, Ann Horne. It gathers together Winnicott's interests in play and playing, and in health, including papers on infantile schizophrenia, the squiggle game, the roots of aggression, interpretation, his significant late paper 'The Use of an Object', and his obituary of James Strachey, his first analyst and editor of the Standard Edition of Sigmund Freud. It also includes a number of Winnicott's letters charting his recovery from a serious illness, from hospital in New York, to his secretary Joyce Coles.

Donald Woods Winnicott (1896-1971) was one of Britain's leading psychoanalysts and pediatricians. The author of some of the most enduring theories of the child and of child analysis, he coined terms such as the "good enough mother" and the "transitional object" (known to most as the security blanket). Winnicott's work is still used today by child and family therapists, social workers, teachers, and psychologists, and his papers and clinical observations are routinely studied by trainees in psychiatry and clinical psychology. Beyond the expected audiences of psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, Winnicott also wrote for parents, teachers, social workers, childcare specialists, pediatricians, psychologists, art and play therapists, and others in the field of child development. Now, for the first time, virtually all of Winnicott's writings are presented chronologically in 12 volumes, edited and annotated by leading Winnicott scholars. The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott brings together letters, clinical case reports, child consultations, psychoanalytic articles, and papers, including previously unpublished works on topics of continuing interest to contemporary readers (such as delinquency, antisocial behavior, corporal punishment, and child care). The Collected Works begins with an authoritative General Introduction by editors Lesley Caldwell and Helen Taylor Robinson, while each of the volumes features an original introduction examining that volume's major themes and written by an international Winnicott scholar and psychoanalyst. Throughout The Collected Works, editorial annotations provide historical context and background information of scholarly and clinical value. The final volume contains new and illuminating appendices, comprehensive bibliographies of Winnicott's publications and letters, documentation of his lectures and broadcasts, and a selection of his drawings. This extraordinary publication will be an essential resource for Winnicott admirers the world over and those interested in the history and origins of the fields of child development and psychoanalysis.

Through Paediatrics to Psycho-analysis

O brincar e a realidade

Nesta obra Winnicott fala a um público amplo sobre as questões fundamentais da infância; as necessidades mínimas de todo bebê, a amamentação como primeiro diálogo, os primeiros sinais da personalidade e a natureza da comunicação não-verbal no par mãe-bebê

Os bebês e suas mães

Volume 7 (1964-66) is introduced by the senior Milanese analyst Anna Ferruta and contains an important selection of articles and letters from this very productive period of Winnicott's working life including articles on the false self, psychosis, psychosomatic illness, regression, children's thinking, trauma, aggression, dissociation, psychoanalytic research, male and female elements, guilt, the unconscious and a selection of letters on psychoanalytic and more general topics.

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