1st Edition

Winnicott and the Psychoanalytic Tradition Interpretation and Other Psychoanalytic Issues

By Lesley Caldwell Copyright 2008
    192 Pages
    by Routledge

    192 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book focuses on two themes: the first theme is the true self and the resonance of Winnicott's thinking with the contributions of other major psychoanalysts of the past half century; the second theme emerges from the first: the pursuit of authenticity, whether by patient or analyst.

    Introduction -- A theory for the true self -- Destructiveness and play: Klein, Winnicott, Milner -- On humming: reflections on Marion Milner's contribution to psychoanalysis -- Being and sexuality: contribution or confusion? -- Clinical experience with psychotic mothers and their babies -- On holding and containing, being and dreaming -- The virtues of Anna Freud -- Donald Winnicott and Melanie Klein: compatible outlooks? -- Michael Balint and Donald Winnicott: contributions to the treatment of severely disturbed patients in the Independent Tradition -- Therapeutic relations: Sándor Ferenczi and the British Independents -- The suppressed madness of sane analysts

    Biography

    Lesley Caldwell