Winnicott's Children : Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches With Children and Adolescents EPUB

Edited by Ann Horne, Monica Lanyado

Part of the Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children and Adolescents series

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Winnicottâ€™s Children focuses on the use we make of the thinking and writing of DW Winnicott; how this has enhanced our understanding of children and the settings where we work, and how it has influenced the way in which we do that work.

It is a volume by clinicians, concerned about how, as well as why, we engage with particular children in particular ways. The book begins with a scholarly and accessible exposition of the place of Winnicott in his time, in relation to his contemporaries â€“ Melanie Klein, Anna Freud, John Bowlby â€“ and the development of his thinking.

The dual focus on the earliest experience of the infant and its consequences plus the â€˜howâ€™ of engaging with children â€“ as good-enough mothers or good enough therapists â€“ is picked up in the chapters that follow.

The role of play is central to a chapter on supervision; struggling through the doldrums can be part of the adolescentâ€™s experience and that of those who engage with him; the role of psychotherapy in a Winnicottian therapeutic community and an inner city secondary school is explored; and a chapter on radio work links us personally with Winnicott and his desire to talk plainly and helpfully to parents. There is a richness in the collection of subjects in this book, and in the experience of the writers.

It will appeal to those who work with children â€“ in child and family mental health settings, schools, hospitals, colleges and social care settings.