In this exploratory text, developed from his 1951 paper "Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena," Winnicott discusses the phenomenon and psychological uses of play, specifically its function in the imaginative development of the child.
Subjected to 22 hours of interrogation, torture and beating by South African police on September 6, 1977, Steve Biko died six days later. Donald Woods, Biko's close friend and a leading white South African newspaper editor, exposed the murder helping to ignite the black revolution. Richard Attenborough's major film drawn from this book will be ...
Dr. Winnicott explores the basic relationships of childhood starting with the bond of love between mother and infant, which he views as the key to personality. Speaking directly and informally, he explains everyday issues such as feeding, crying, playing, independence, and shyness as well as serious problems such as stealing and lying.Throughout ...
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.
Addresses the central issues of infancy. This volume collates the author's mature reflections on the relationship between mothers and their babies and on the psychological processes taking place in the infant around the time of birth and shortly afterwards. The author, a distinguished psychoanalyst, discusses the minimum needs of every baby, ...
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Culled from unpublished manuscripts found after his death, this anthology contains essays by D. W. Winnicott on a wide range of concerns: health and illness, family, and society. In bringing them together the editors hope to show the "depth of [Winnicott's] convictions that the structure of society reflects the nature of the individual and of the ...
Before there was Dr. Spock or T. Berry Brazelton or Penelope Leach, there was D. W. Winnicott. A child psychiatrist for over 40 years, he concerned himself with child development in ways that had never been considered before. The writings contained in this book cover issues such as early infant development, family relationships, psychosomatic ...
Brilliant insights and understanding of children from the man who inspired Spock, Brazelton, and the entire field of child development. 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 ...
The originality of Winnicott's thought and his originality as a person as inseparable. This book explores the way in which a search for an experiencing that feels real is evident in both Winnicott's life and work. He believes deeply that individuals possess a unique, innate authenticity. One feels most alive and free when in touch with this core ...
This powerful biography of Bantu Stephen Biko--which was the basis for the major motion picture Cry Freedom, starring Kevin Kline and Denzel Washington--is considered the definitive work on one of the most important leaders in South Africa's history.
Through letters, notes, and the verbatim exchanges between therapist and patient, the reader is invited into the intimate process of child psychotherapy. Young Gabrielle was brought to Dr. Winnicott when she was two years old for nightmares and a significant personality shift after her younger sister was born. Winnicott's work with Gabrielle, ...
The editors of The Winnicott Trust have assembled into one volume ninety-two works by the brilliant writer, theoretician, and clinician. This fascinating volume includes, among many important topics, critiques of Melanie Klein's ideas and insights into the work of other psychoanalysts, as well as gems of thought on such concepts as play in the ...
This is an immense treasure trove containing hundreds of equipment symptoms, arranged so as to allow swift identification and elimination of the causes. These rules of thumb are the result of preserving and structuring the immense knowledge of experienced engineers collected and compiled by the author - an experienced engineer himself - into an ...
In this text, Winnicott offers the reader a seven-month snapshot of the therapeutic process--his sessions with a client who had come to him for treatment of depression and a psychotic breakdown. As such, it shows a therapist successfully working through the analytic experience.
This book provides a range of co-ordinated heuristics and engineering rules of thumb in selecting process equipment to transport, use and exchange energy, separate species, and react chemicals. Data is organized systematically on a need-to-know basis. An extensive set of illustrated procedures demonstrate the implications of a variety of design ...
D. W. Winnicott (1896-1971) was one of the giants of child psychiatry and analysis. Whether writing or talking, he always argued eloquently for an increased sensitivity to children, their development and their needs. His books such as Playing
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