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By Brett Kahr

This wonderful publication is an highbrow dinner party and it may be required studying for all scholars of psychology. It deals an in-depth figuring out on Winnicott, his lifestyles, his paintings, and his knowledge. the superb contributions are written in a really obtainable sort, bringing the tips and ideas actually alive to the reader. Margot Sunderland, Director, The Centre for baby psychological wellbeing and fitness, London.

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Dockar-Drysdale, 1974). His future wife, Clare Britton, assisted him mightily in this clinical observational research on the importance of management (Winnicott & Britton, 1944, 1947). g. Vizard, Monck, and Misch, 1995; Vizard, Wynick, Hawkes, Woods, & Jenkins, 1996; cf. Kahr, 1996b, 2001). To summarize Winnicott’s unparalleled contributions to the study and treatment of infancy and childhood, we can enumerate his legacy thus, in brief phrases: 1. theory of infant psychology; 2. treatment of infant psychopathology; 3.

It is terribly important to be in contact with one’s dream life and to be able to talk about it to one’s analyst. The specific interpretation that is offered “really matters much less”. At this point, I could better understand how Winnicott had lain on Strachey’s couch for so 30 “setting” ok as added? or what is ... non-verbal aspect...? PAUL ROAZEN many years; Winnicott was so full of his own ideas as probably to have been relatively impervious to an uncomprehending analyst. Winnicott tried to arrange his consulting-room carefully for his patients.

In a single pronouncement that turns our usual thinking on its head, Winnicott gives us food for endless thought. But this is what this marvellous transitional thinker offers again and again as an endowment to those of us who are more conservative and single- 22 ROBERT LANGS minded in our thinking. There is good reason too for each of us who are relatively set in our ways of thinking—and how rare the exceptions are—to adopt Winnicott as our model. Think differently once a day, he is telling us, embrace ideas that transcend your fixed position and allow these ideas to take you into unexplored territories—after all, you can, if need be, return to more familiar ground long before you see your next patient.

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