Winnicott's Babies and Winnicott's Patients - Psychoanalysis as Transitional Space (Hardcover)

Winnicott's thinking continues to grow in importance in psychoanalysis today. This book can be described as a clinical primer: by presenting her own personal responses to Winnicott and her initial understanding of his thinking, Margaret Boyle Spelman aims to help others develop their own 'Winnicott' to assist with their clinical thinking. This book makes explicit the parallel in Winnicott's thinking between the situation of the baby and the 'nursing couple', and the patient and the 'analytic couple'. There are two helpful baby observation pieces which are aimed at first giving something of the experience of completing a baby observation and then of the reporting of it. In addition to these, there are chapters that treat Winnicott's thinking and the comparison of the original baby with the one who appears in the course of an adult therapy. Winnicott's thinking is first situated historically. Then each of his three stages of dependence are explored in detail: absolute dependence, relative dependence, and going towards independence. These are looked at from the viewpoint of the patient/baby and the mother/therapist in both developmental and clinical situations.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2019
First published:	2013
Authors:	Margaret Boyle Spelman
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	190
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-10223-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > General
LSN:	0-367-10223-4
Barcode:	9780367102234

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