Attachment, Play, and Authenticity

Steven Tuber is professor of Psychology, director of Clinical Training and program head of the doctoral program in clinical psychology at City College, CUNY, where he has taught for over 30 years. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology in clinical psychology, the editor of the book series, Psychodynamic Assessment and Psychotherapy for the 21st Century (Lexington Books) and on the editorial board of five different journals, including Psychoanalytic Psychology and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He has authored and/or edited six critically acclaimed books and written over 150 papers in the intertwining fields of assessment and treatment of children and adolescents.

• Preface Acknowledgments 1 Dialectical Meaning-Making in Infancy 2 A Good Object Must Be Found in Order to be Created 3 The True Self and False Compliance 4 We Are Essentially Isolates, with the Capacity to Be Alone 5 Using Objects and the Capacity to Hate 6 Integrating Theory with Therapy: The Case of Bob 7 The Meaning and Power of Play: How Does Learning toPlay Enable Work and Indeed Life to Proceed? 8 The Mind, the Body, and the World of Transitional Phenomena 9 Hate in the Countertransference 10 The Antisocial Tendency 11 The Aims of Psychoanalytic Treatment 12 Winnicott as Therapist More than Theorist Bibliography Index About the Author

This second edition stands out front as a unique exceptionally thoughtful integrated summary of Winnicott's work. Tuber carefully identifies what is essential for students and clinicians to know and brings to it a coherence that piecemeal study would never achieve. This book is a wonderful presentation of Winnicott's work, from which both Winnicott and the author emerge with immense distinction.