D.W. Winnicott: A Biographical Portrait

by Brett Kahr

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367104870
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/14/2019
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Brett Kahr is Senior Fellow at Tavistock Relationships, in the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, London, and, Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health. A registrant of both the British Psychoanalytic Council and the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, he has written or edited nine books and serves as Series Editor or Co-Editor to the "Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series" and the "History of Psychoanalysis Series" for Karnac Books. He is also a Trustee of the Freud Museum London. He has worked in the mental health field for over thirty-five years. His most recent book is Coffee with Freud, and his forthcoming book is entitled Winnicott's Anni Horribiles: The Creation of 'Hate in the Counter-Transference'.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

Focuses on unknown areas of the psychoanalyst's life, looking at his upbringing by "multiple mothers" and his identification with and fascination for the inner world of the female as they influenced his work in motherhood and the mother-child relationship. Discusses his war experiences, his own analysis, his marriages, and his rise as a clinician, writer, and theoretician. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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