The Spontaneous Gesture Selected Letters of D.W. Winnicott

Preface -- Introduction -- To Violet Winnicott -- To Mrs. Neville Chamberlain -- To Kate Friedlander -- To the Editor, British Medical Journal -- To Lord Beveridge -- To the Editor, the Times -- To Ella Sharpe -- To Anna Freud -- To Paul Federn -- To the Editor, British Medical Journal -- To Marjorie Stone -- To the Editor, the Times -- To R. S. Hazlehurst -- To S. H. Hodge -- To Otho W. S. Fitzgerald -- To the Editor, the Times -- To P. D. Scott -- To James Strachey -- To Edward Glover -- To Hanna Segal -- To Augusta Bonnard -- To Willi Hoffer -- To H. Ezriel -- To Ernest Jones -- To Melanie Klein -- To Roger Money-Kyrle -- To Herbert Rosenfeld -- To Hanna Segal -- To W. Clifford M. Scott -- To Esther Bick -- To Sylvia Payne -- To David Rapaport -- To Hannah Ries -- To W. Clifford M. Scott -- To W. Clifford M. Scott -- To Anna Freud -- To Betty Joseph -- To W. Clifford M. Scott -- To Sir David K. Henderson -- To John Bowlby -- To Klara Frank -- To Sir David K. Henderson -- To Anna Freud and Melanie Klein -- To Michael Fordham -- To Harry Guntrip -- To The Editor, the Times -- To Harry Guntrip -- To Roger Money-Kyrle -- To D. Chaplin -- To the Editor, the Times -- To Roger Money-Kyrle -- To Emilio Rodrigue -- To Charles F. Rycroft -- To Michael Fordham -- To Hanna Segal -- To Wilfred R. Bion -- To Anna Freud -- To Joan Riviere -- To Enid Balint -- To Gabriel Casuso -- To Oliver H. Lowry -- To J. P. M. Tizard -- To Barbara Lantos -- To Anna M. Kulka -- To Thomas Main -- To Melanie Klein -- To Martin James -- To Augusta Bonnard -- To Augusta Bonnard -- To Joan Riviere -- To R. D. Laing -- To Herbert Rosenfeld -- To Victor Smirnoff -- To Donald Meltzer -- To Elliot Jaques -- To Thomas Szasz -- To Michael Balint -- To Jacques Lacan -- To A. R. Luria -- To Wilfred R. Bion -- To Masud Khan -- To Wilfred R. Bion -- To Benjamin Spock -- To Ronald McKeith -- To Timothy Raison -- To the Editor, New Society -- To the Observer -- To John O. Wisdom -- To the Editor, the Observer -- To Mrs. B. J. Knopf -- To Humberto Nagera -- To Michael Fordham -- To Michael Fordham -- To Charles Anthony Storr -- To the Editor, the Times -- To Herbert Rosenfeld -- To Hans Thorner -- To a Confidant -- To Lili E. Peller -- To Sylvia Payne -- To Donald Meltzer -- To a Patient -- To D. N. Parfitt -- To Mrs. P. Aitken -- To a Colleague -- To Margaret Torrie -- To Margaret Torrie -- To Wilfred R. Bion -- To Gillian Nelson -- To Charles Clay Dahlberg -- To Marjorie Spence -- To Marjorie Spence -- To R. S. W. Dowling -- To Donald Gough -- To L. Joseph Stone -- To Adam Limentani -- To F. Robert Rodman -- To an American Correspondent -- To Anna Freud -- To J. D. Collinson -- To M. B. Conran -- To Agnes Wilkinson -- To William W. Sargant -- To Helm Stierlin -- To Robert Tod -- Winnicott's Correspondents

Biography

F. Robert Rodman M.D., practices psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, he is a member of the Centre for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies, Princeton, New Jersey, and the author of 'Not Dying: A Memoir' and 'Keeping Hope Alive: On Becoming a Psychotherapist'. Donald Winnicott (1896-1971) was trained in paediatrics, a profession that he practiced to the end of his life, in particular at the Paddington Green Children's Hospital. He began analysis with James Strachey in 1923, became a member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society in 1935, and twice served as its President. He was also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and of the British Psychological Society.