Donald W. Winnicott A New Approach - Dethiville, Laura (Karnac Books, 2014)
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COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE Winnicott today; CHAPTER TWO The man and his life; CHAPTER THREE Transitional objects and transitional phenomena; CHAPTER FOUR The importance of the environment; CHAPTER FIVE The baby is a person; CHAPTER SIX The self; CHAPTER SEVEN The false self; CHAPTER EIGHT Psycho-somatic illness and communication; CHAPTER NINE Splitting and dissociated elements; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; INDEX
Winnicott was continually innovating, inventing, and proposing unexpected solutions in his analytical work whenever he noticed that clinical experience ""didn't stick to the theory"". This approach can make his work seem rather diffuse, with concepts that are sometimes confusing and needing to be clarified. Laura Dethiville has taken on the task of re-evaluating and explaining the principal rudiments of his theories, such as the transitional object, the self, the false self, the importance of environment, and dissociation. She also reveals how Winnicott showed himself to be a forerunner in the