Human Nature - Softcover

Winnicott, D. W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0946960968 ISBN 13: 9780946960965

Publisher: Free Association Books, 1988

Synopsis

The ideas of Donald Winnicott are scattered through numerous clinical papers and short, popular expositions. He made only one attempt to write and overview of his ideas, and this is it. It remained unfinished at his death in 1971. It is an ambitious work. The chapters offer his perspective on most of the main issues in psychoanalytic theory - for example, psychosomatics; the Oedipus complex; infantile sexuality; the unconscious; the depressive position; manic defence; transitional objects; aggression. Winnicott has here made a major synthetic effort, one which is regarded as the best of his posthumous works. D. W. Winnicottcan be said to be the most influential native-born British psychoanalyst and - with Klein and Fairbairn - the founder of the object relations perspective. His writings are among the most moving and evocative int he whole literature of psychoanalysis.

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Review:

...arguably the most influential psychoanalyst since the days of Freud and Jung. Peter Lomas, Times Literary Supplement

Synopsis:

Winnicott's ideas are scattered through numerous clinical papers and popular expositions. He made only one attempt to write an overview of his ideas, and this is it.

About this edition

• Publisher: Free Association Books
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0946960968
• ISBN 13: 9780946960965
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208