Language of Winnicott

Jan Abram is a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society in private practice in London. She is the author of 'The Language of Winnicott' (awarded Outstanding Academic Book of the Year; 2nd edition 2007) and editor of 'Donald Winnicott Today' (nominee for a Gradiva Award, 2013). She is currently visiting professor University College London. Her forthcoming book is a collection of her clinical papers, 'The Surviving Object'.

• Introduction, AGGRESSION, ALONE (THE CAPACITY TO BE), ANTISOCIAL TENDENCY, BEING (CONTINUITY OF), COMMUNICATION, CONCERN (STAGE OF), CREATIVITY, DEPENDENCE, DEPRESSION, EGO, ENVIRONMENT, HATE, ILLUSION (OF OMNIPOTENCE), MOTHER, PLAYING, PRIMARY MATERNAL PREOCCUPATION, REGRESSION, SELF, SPATULA GAME, SQUIGGLE GAME, TRANSITIONAL PHENOMENA

THIS IS THE HARDBACK EDITION - for the paperback edition see catalogue number 24508Thomas Ogden introduces Abram's dictionary by emphasising the experience of reading Winnicott's words. Abram's accomplishment, he writes, is comparable to the Oxford English Dictionary which offers the reader "the history of the way a word or term has been used and how that usage has changed and is in the process of further change". The hall mark of The Language of Winnicott is that it demonstrates how Winnicott's use of words creates a version of psychoanalysis that is a "very living thing".Knud Hjulmand has been working on creating a definitive Winnicott bibliography. For the first time this new edition of The Language of Winnicott will include the most recently revised, chronological and alphabetical, bibliography of all the published works of D.W.Winnicott. Knud is a clinical psychologist and child psychotherapist in private practice in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a member of the Danish Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with children and adolescents and member of the Advisory Board for The Journal of Child Psychotherapy. He teaches and supervises for the University of Copenhagen and has several publications in Scandinavian Journals.