Represents a decade of writing from a thinker who was at the peak of his powers as perhaps the leading post-war figure in developmental psychiatry. This book chronicles the complex…

This work illuminates the emotional and psychological issues in raising young children.

Acknowledgements. Introduction. Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena. Dreaming, Fantasying, and Living: A Case-history Describing a Primary Dissociation. Playing: A Theoretical Statement. Playing: Creative Activity and the Search for the Self…

Covering issues such as autism, adoption, early infant development, psychosomatic problems, and family relationships, this work spans over 40 years of writing, ranging from case histories to theoretical advances in…

Brings together some of the author’s works contributing to our understanding of the minds of children. This title includes essays that range in topic from ‘The Concept of a Healthy…

Thinking About Children collects thirty-one papers, of which twenty-eight have never previously been published. As might be expected, they range widely in tone and content from concise clinical observations to…

D. W. Winnicott was one of the giants of child psychiatry and psychoanalysis. He argued eloquently for an increased sensitivity to children, their development and their needs.

The contributors to this volume explore the impact of D.W. Winnicott’s psychoanalytical theories, focusing on the relevance of his independent version of object relations theory to psychoanalytical literary criticism.