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This book is the second volume in the series based on the annual
Donald Winnicott Memorial Lecture. It provides the personal and
professional lives of Donald Winnicott and Dr John Bowlby, to give
a fascinating insight into the worlds of these influential
analysts.
Helping both parents and psychologists to arrive at a better
understanding of the inner emotional world of the infant, this
selection of key lectures by Bowlby includes the seminal one that
gives the volume its title. Informed by wide clinical experience,
and written with the author's well-known humanity and lucidity, the
lectures provide an invaluable introduction to John Bowlby's
thought and work, as well as much practical guidance of use both to
parents and to members of the mental health professions.
"The Winnicott Clinic of Psychotherapy was founded in 1969 and
since 2000 has concentrated on the wider dissemination of the work
and ideas of Dr Donald W. Winnicott (1896-1971), the distinguished
English paediatrician, child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. To
that end, it has established the Winnicott Clinic Senior Research
Fellowship in Psychotherapy and the Donald Winnicott Memorial
Lecture, an annual event designed for a wide audience of
professionals and others involved with children. These lectures
focus upon a specific topic, arising from Winnicott's life and
ideas, in terms of relevance for twenty-first century living." --
Eric Koops, LVO, Chairman of the Trustees, The Winnicott Clinic of
PsychotherapyDonald Winnicott and Dr John Bowlby are two of the
greatest influences in the field of child analysis and therapy,
whose concepts continue to inspire all those working with children
today. This volume, part of a series based on the annual Donald
Winnicott Memorial Lecture, is presented by Sir Richard Bowlby,
followed by a paper from Pearl King. Although they both acknowledge
the enormous debt child and adolescent analysis and therapy owe to
these two men, the presenters also take time to recollect and
reflect upon Winnicott and Bowlby as they personally knew them,
giving a fascinating insight into the lives and characters of two
of the greats in the field of child mental health. In addition to
the paper given by Sir Richard Bowlby, the volume includes a
Foreword by Eric Koops, an Introduction by Brett Kahr and the paper
"Recollections of Donald Winnicott and John Bowlby" by Pearl King.
These essays, spanning 20 years of Bowlby's speaking about the
forming and breaking of relationships of affection, are clear and
systematic They make an excellent introduction to his thought. -
British Journal of Psychiatry forms of family experience began in
1929 when he worked for six months in a school for behaviourally
challenged children. A decade later, having completed his
psychiatric training, he presented his findings in a paper entitled
'The Influence of Early Environment on the Development of Neurosis
and Neurotic Character'. Its publication was to spark a long and
illustrious career, which helped both parents and psychologists
arrive at a better understanding of the inner emotional world of
the infant. This selection of key lectures by Bowlby includes the
seminal one that gives the volume its title. Informed by wide
clinical experience, and written with the author's well known
humanity and lucidity, the lectures provide an invaluable
introduction to John Bowlby's thought and work, as well as much
practical guidance of use both to parents and to members of the
mental health professions. theory, he worked for many years as
Child and Family Psychiatrist at London's renowned Tavistock
Clinic.
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