Winnicott Tradition

Margaret Boyle Spelman, Frances Thomson-Salo

• Series Editors’ Foreword -- Introduction -- Winnicott: His Work and Legacy -- Section Introduction -- Has Winnicott become a Winnicottian? -- Winnicott’s constant search for the life that feels real -- “People who think in pictures”: the continuing dialogue between Marion Milner and Donald Winnicott in Bothered by Alligators -- Unassimilated aggression and the emergence of the unit self: Winnicott, Jung, and Matte Blanco -- Winnicott and Bion: claiming alternate legacies -- Winnicott’s anni horribiles: the biographical roots of “Hate in the counter-transference” -- Between Winnicott and Lacan -- A measure of agreement: an exploration of the relationship of Winnicott and Phyllis Greenacre -- Clinical Work and Applications of Winnicott’s Tradition -- Section Introduction -- On potential space -- Creating connections -- The paternal function in Winnicott: the psychoanalytical frame, becoming human -- “Where we start from”: thinking with Winnicott and Lacan about the care of homeless adults -- Seeing and being seen: the psychodynamics of pornography through the lens of Winnicott’s thought -- The isolate and the stranger: Winnicott’s model of subjectivity and its implications for theory and technique -- Hatred and helping: working with our own fear and narcissistic rage -- “I feel that you are introducing a big problem. I never became human. I have missed it” -- The analyst’s oscillating between interpreting and not interpreting: a peculiar Winnicottian point of view on interpreting and not interpreting -- Maternal perinatal mental illness: the baby’s unexperienced breakdown -- Mind the gap: dysynchrony in the writings of Winnicott and associated clinical thoughts -- Specialised Work in the Winnicott Tradition -- Section Introduction -- The importance of being seen: Winnicott, dance movement psychotherapy, and the embodied experience -- The location of authenticity -- Transitional/transitive—pictures from an exhibition -- The seriousness of playfulness -- Maternal form in artistic creation -- Ways of being: transitional objects and the work of art -- Unintegrated states and the process of integration: a new formulation -- The reflected self -- “Oedipus, schmedipus: so long as he loves his mother”: teaching Winnicott to a non-analytic audience -- Personal and Theoretical Reflections from Clinicians -- Section Introduction -- Two pioneers in the history of infant mental health: Winnicott and Bowlby -- Winnicott’s influence on paediatrics then and now -- Anna Freud and Winnicott: developmental stages, aggression, and infantile sexuality -- A personal reflection: claiming alternate legacies