| Winnicott Contributor(s): Phillips, Adam (Author) |
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ISBN: 0674953614 ISBN-13: 9780674953611 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $35.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1989 Annotation: Although he founded no school of his own, 0. W. Winnicott (1896 1971) is now regarded as one of the most influential contributors to psychoanalysis since Freud. In over forty years of clinical practice, he brought unprecedented skill and intuition to the psychoanalysis of children. This critical new work by Adam Phillips presents the best short introduction to the thought and practice of D. W. Winnicott that is currently available. Winnicott's work was devoted to the recognition and description of the good mother and the use of the mother-infant relationship as the model of psychoanalytic treatment, His belief in natural development became a covert critique of overinterpretative methods of psychoanalysis. He combined his idiosyncratic approach to psychoanalysis with a willingness to make his work available to nonspecialist audiences. In this book Winnicott takes his place with Melanie K'ein and Jacques Lacan as one of the great innovators within the psychoanalytic tradition. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent - Biography & Autobiography | Social Scientists & Psychologists - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis |
| Dewey: 155.4 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 5.48" W x 8.36" (0.55 lbs) 188 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Although he founded no school of his own, D. W. Winnicott (1896-1971) is now regarded as one of the most influential contributors to psychoanalysis since Freud. In over forty years of clinical practice, he brought unprecedented skill and intuition to the psychoanalysis of children. This critical new work by Adam Phillips presents the best short introduction to the thought and practice of Winnicott that is currently available. Winnicott's work was devoted to the recognition and description of the good mother and the use of the mother-infant relationship as the model of psychoanalytic treatment. His belief in natural development became a covert critique of overinterpretative methods of psychoanalysis. He combined his idiosyncratic approach to psychoanalysis with a willingness to make his work available to nonspecialist audiences. In this book Winnicott takes his place with Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan as one of the great innovators within the psychoanalytic tradition. |
Contributor Bio(s): Phillips, Adam: - Adam Phillips is Principal Child Psychotherapist in the Wolverton Gardens Child and Family Consultation Centre, London. |