Donald W. Winnicott
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.
Playing and Reality
What are the origins of creativity and how can we develop it - whether within ourselves or in others? Not only does Playing and Reality address these questions, it also tackles many more that... (more)
Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis: Collected Papers
The value of Winnicott's work has become more and more widely recognized not only among psycho-analysts but also psychologists, educators, social workers, and men and women in every branch of... (more)
Home is Where We Start From: Essays by a Psychoanalyst
A series of papers divided into three groups: 'Health and Illness', 'The Family', and 'Reflections on society'. (more)
The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment: Studies in the Theory of Emotional Development
The collection of papers that forms The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment brings together Dr. Winnicott's published and unpublished papers on psychoanalysis and child... (more)
Deprivation and Delinquency
An invaluable compilation of D.W. Winnicott's papers, talks, letters and lectures between 1930 and 1970, centred on the theme of the relationship between antisocial behaviour, or more chronically... (more)
The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott
12-Volume Set
Donald Woods Winnicott (1896-1971) was one of Britain's leading psychoanalysts and pediatricians. The author of some of the most enduring theories of the child and of child analysis,... (more)
Psycho-Analytic Explorations
This volume contains ninety-two works by this renowned writer, theoretician, and clinician. Includes critiques of Melanie Klein's ideas and insights into the works of other leading psychoanalysts,... (more)
The Piggle: The Account of the Psychoanalytic Treatment of a Little Girl
On 16 occasions, from the age of two until the age of five, 'the Piggle' - a little girl seriously disturbed by the birth of a younger sister - visited Dr Winnincott. This is an account of her... (more)
Therapeutic Consultations in Child Psychiatry
Over a period of several decades, D.W. Winnicott evolved a personal way of relating to and communicating with children, offering them a live professional setting in which to discover themselves. He... (more)
The Family and Individual Development
The Family and Individual Development 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. In these... (more)
The Spontaneous Gesture: Selected Letters of D.W. Winnicott
This volume consists of the collected letters of D. W. Winnicott, a central figure in British psychoanalysis in the generation following Freud. Suspicious of dogma and deeply committed to the value... (more)
Holding and Interpretation: Fragment of an Analysis
In his illuminating introduction, Masud Khan, to whom Dr Winnicott's case notes were entrusted, relates this definite text of Holding and Interpretation: Fragment of an Analysis to an earlier phase... (more)
Human Nature
This is Donald Winnicott's only attempt to write an overview of his ideas. It remained unfinished at his death in 1971. It is an ambitious work. The chapters offer his perspective on most of the main... (more)
Thinking About Children
At his death in 1971, Donald Winnicott left unpublished a large number of papers, lectures and other writings which spanned his career of over forty years as a psychoanalyst and pediatrician. Since... (more)