"Winnicott was a healer with the qualities of a parent, a magician, a teacher, a poet and a friend. The editors of this book have done a great service in collecting and arranging papers dating from the experiences of the evacuation in the Second World War up to some of Winnicott's continued explorations of his own philosophy" - The British Medical Journal D. W. Winnicott was one of the giants of child psychiatry and psychoanalysis. He argued eloquently for an increased sensitivity to children, their development and their needs. Deprivation and Delinquency is an invaluable collection of his work on the theme of the relationship between antisocial behaviour, or more chronically delinquency, and childhood experiences of deprivation. Winnicott examines children under stress, the nature and origin of antisocial tendency and the practical management of difficult children - issues which have once again exploded onto the social agenda.

As both a theoretician and clinician, Donald Winnicott left a legacy of concepts, ideas and attitudes whose importance continues to grow. In this volume the editors have assembled ninety-two works half of them previously unpublished that will be of particular interest to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. "Psycho-Analytic Explorations" will stand as the sourcebook of Winnicott s thought for those in his own field.This collection spans the years from World War II to Winnicott s death in 1971, and testifies to the wide range of his intellectual interests and clinical experience. It includes previously unpublished critiques of the ideas of Melanie Klein and comments on the work of other psychoanalysts, as well as clinical examples, case studies, and gems of thought extracted from his files. Many of the topics will be of direct use to clinicians: for example, play in the analytic situation, the use of silence; psychosomatic disorder, interpretation in analysis, and seven chapters on psychotherapy with children and adolescents. Other chapters treat such themes as the fate of the transitional object, fear of breakdown, the split-off male and female elements, the basis for self in body. Also included are Winnicott s writing on convulsion therapy and leucotomy; his memoir by his widow, Clare; and, as a postscript, a talk he gave late in life discussing the influences that shaped his work."

This volume contains ninety-two works by this renowned writer, theoretician, and clinician. Includes critiques of Melanie Klein's ideas and insights into the works of other leading psychoanalysts, and thoughts on such concepts as play in the analytic situation, the fate of the transitional object, regression in psychoanalysis, and the use of silenc

This collection brings together some of psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott's most important work contributing to our understanding of the minds of children. The essays range in topic from "The Concept of a Healthy Individual" and "The Value of Depression" to "Delinquancy as a sign of Hope". All reveal Winnicott's vision of the ways in which the developing self interacts with the family and the larger society.

"Winnicott was a healer with the qualities of a parent, a magician, a teacher, a poet and a friend. The editors of this book have done a great service in collecting and arranging papers dating from the experiences of the evacuation in the Second World War up to some of Winnicott’s continued explorations of his own philosophy" - The British Medical Journal

D. W. Winnicott was one of the giants of child psychiatry and psychoanalysis. He argued eloquently for an increased sensitivity to children, their development and their needs. Deprivation and Delinquency is an invaluable collection of his work on the theme of the relationship between antisocial behaviour, or more chronically delinquency, and childhood experiences of deprivation. Winnicott examines children under stress, the nature and origin of antisocial tendency and the practical management of difficult children – issues which have once again exploded onto the social agenda.

Table of Contents

Foreword. Editors' Preface. Winnicott, Introduction. Part I: Children Under Stress: Wartime Experience. Editors' Introduction. Evacuation of Small Children. Review of the Cambridge Evacuation Survey (1941). Children in the War (1940). The Deprived Mother (1939). The Evacuated Child (1945). The Return of the Evacuated Child (1945). Home Again (1945). Residential Management as Treatment for Difficult Children (1947). Children's Hostels in War and Peace (1948). Part II: The Nature and Origins of the Antisocial Tendency. Editors' Introduction. Aggression and its Roots. The Development of the Capacity for Concern (1963). The Absence of a Sense of Guilt (1966). Some Psychological Aspects of Juvenile Delinquency (1946). The Antisocial Tendency (1956). The Psychology of Separation (1958). Aggression, Guilt and Reparation (1960). Struggling Through the Doldrums (1963). Youth Will Not Sleep (1964). Part III: The Social Provision. Editors' Introduction. Correspondence with a Magistrate (1944). The Foundation of Mental Health (1951). The Deprived Child and How He Can Be Compensated for Loss of Family Life (1950). Group Influences and the Maladjusted Child: The School Aspect (1955). The Persecution that Wasn't (1967). Comments on the Report of the Committee on Punishment in Prisons and Borstals (1961). Do Progressive Schools Give Too Much Freedom to the Child? Residential Care as Therapy (1970). Part IV: Individual Therapy. Editors' Introduction. Varieties of Psychotherapy. The Psychotherapy of Character Disorders (1963). Dissociation Revealed in Therapeutic Consultation (1965). Sources of the Papers in this Volume.