1st Edition

D.W. Winnicott A Biographical Portrait

By Brett Kahr Copyright 1996
    222 Pages
    by Routledge

    222 Pages
    by Routledge

    A distillation of painstaking research into the life of Donald Winnicott, tracing his life from his childhood in Plymouth, through his career in paediatrics, to his election as President of the British Psycho-Analytic Society. The author makes many interesting links between Winnicott's life and the development of his theories.

    Foreword , Introduction , Preface , D. W. Winnicott: A Biographical Portrait , Infancy and childhood , Boarding-school , Medicine and paediatrics , Psychoanalytic training , Melanie Klein and Joan Riviere , Professional maturity , Private life , Illness and death , Appendices , Winnicott’s schoolmates , Winnicott’s lectures , Winnicott’s Last Will and Testament

    Biography

    Brett Kahr