Main description:

First published in 1990. The ideas of Donald Winnicott are scattered through numerous clinical papers and short, popular expositions. He made only one attempt to write and overview of his ideas, and this is it. It remained unfinished at his death in 1971. It is an ambitious work. The chapters offer his perspective on most of the main issues in psychoanalytic theory - for example, psychosomatics; the Oedipus complex; infantile sexuality; the unconscious; the depressive position; manic defence; transitional objects; aggression. Winnicott has here made a major synthetic effort, one which is regarded as the best of his posthumous works. D. W. Winnicott can be said to be the most influential native-born British psychoanalyst and - with Klein and Fairbairn - the founder of the object relations perspective. His writings are among the most moving and evocative int he whole literature of psychoanalysis.

Contents:

INTRODUCTION, PART I THE HUMAN CHILD EXAMINED! SOMA, PSYCHE, MIND INTRODUCTION, Chapter 1 THE PSYCHE-SOMA AND THE MIND , 3 INTER-RELATIONSHIP OF BODY DISEASE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER, (vi) HUMA N NATURE 4 TH E PSYCHO-SOMATIC FIELD, PART I THE EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE HUMAN BEING INTRODUCTION, Chapter 1 INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS, 2 THE CONCEPT OF HEALTH USING INSTINCT THEORY, PART II I ESTABLISHMENT OF UNIT STATUS INTRODUCTION Chapter i TH E DEPRESSIVE POSITION, 2 DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEME OF THE INNER WORLD, 3 VARIOUS TYPES OF PSYCHO-THERAPY MATERIAL, 4 HYPOCHONDRIACAL ANXIETY, PART I V FROM INSTINCT THEORY TO EGO THEORY INTRODUCTION: Chapter 1 ESTABLISHMENT OF RELATIONSHIP WITH EXTERNAL REALITY, 2 INTEGRATION, 3 DWELLING OF PSYCHE IN BODY, 4 T H E EARLIEST STATES, (viii) HUMAN NATURE 5 A PRIMARY STATE OF BEING: PRE-PRIMITIVE STAGES, 6 CHAOS, 7 TH E INTELLECTUAL FUNCTION, 8 WITHDRAWA L AND REGRESSION, 9 TH E BIRTH EXPERIENCE, 10 ENVIRONMENT, 11 PSYCHO-SOMATIC DISORDER RECONSIDERED