1st Edition

The Legacy of Winnicott Essays on Infant and Child Mental Health

By Brett Kahr Copyright 2002
    208 Pages
    by Routledge

    208 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book highlights some of Donald Winnicott's contributions that particularly illustrate the originality of his thought. It focuses on some of his indirect as well as direct contributions to psychoanalytic technique.

    Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Overtures to Winnicott -- D. W. Winnicott: the transitional thinker -- A meeting with Donald Winnicott in 1965 -- Mothers and Infants -- The personality of the foetus -- Mother–infant psychotherapy: a classification of eleven psychoanalytic treatment strategies -- The wider applications of infant observation -- Children and Adolescents -- From baby games to let’s pretend: the achievement of playing -- Psychoanalytic perspectives on traumatized children: the Armenia experience -- On losing your marble -- The false self and the false body -- Reminiscences of Winnicott -- Memories of Donald Winnicott -- My experience of Winnicott -- D. W. Winnicott -- Winnicottiana: some hitherto unpublished documents

    Biography

    Kahr, Brett