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FORENSIC PSYCHOTHERAPY MONOGRAPH SERIES EDITOR: BRETT KAHR FORENSIC PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY Winnicottian Perspectives edited by Brett Kahr K A R N AC Forensic Psychotherapy and Psychopathology Other titles in the Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series Violence: A Public Health Menace and a Public Health Approach, edited by Sandra L. Bloom Life within Hidden Worlds: Psychotherapy in Prisons, edited by Jessica Williams Saunders Forensic Psychotherapy and Psychopathology Winnicottian Perspectives edited by Brett Kahr Foreword by Vamik Volkan Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series Series Editor Brett Kahr London & New York KARNAC BOOKS First published in 2001 by H. Karnac (Books) Ltd, 118 Finchley Road, London NW3 5HT A subsidiary of Other Press LLC, New York Reprinted 2002 Arrangement, Series Foreword, Introduction copyright © 2001 Brett Kahr. Foreword copyright © 2001 Vamik Volkan. Chapter 1 copyright © 2001 Jennifer Johns. Chapter 2 copyright © 2001 Estela Welldon. Chapter 3 copyright © 2001 Joan Raphael-Leff. Chapter 4 copyright © 2001 Valerie Sinason. Chapter 5 copyright © 2001 Jeannie Milligan. Chapter 6 copyright © 2001 Donald Campbell. Chapter 7 copyright © 2001 Em Farrell. Chapter 8 copyright © 2001 Peter Giovacchini. Chapter 9 copyright © 2001 Charles Socarides. Chapter 10 copyright © 2001 Murray Cox. The rights of the editor and contributors to be identified as the authors of this work have been asserted in accordance with §§ 77 and 78 of the Copy right Design and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. The views expressed in this book are the authors' own and do not necessar ily reflect those of the Home Office and the Prison Department. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CLP. for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 978 1 85575 237 5 10 98765432 Edited, designed, and produced by Communication Crafts www.kamacbooks.com Dedicated to the memory of my grandmother, Dorothy Dorb Kahr [1909-19*94] "I suggest that in health there is a core to the personality." Winnicott, 1963b, p. 187 "I find the inherited tendency cannot operate alone, and that the developing baby and child it is the environment that facilitates individual growth." Winnicott, 1969a, p. 186 CONTENTS SERIES FOREWORD . • ... _ ix ; : v CONTRIBUTORS xiii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS XVii FOREWORD by Vamik Volkan xix Introduction Winnicott's contribution to the study of dangerousness Brett Kahr 1 1 Winnicott: a beginning Jennifer Johns 11 2 Babies as transitional objects Estela Welldon 19 3 Primary maternal persecution Joan Raphael-Leff 27 vii VIII CONTENTS 4 Children who kill their teddy bears Valerie Sinason 5 Deprivation and delinquency in the treatment of the adolescent forensic patient feannie Milligan 6 On pseudo-normality: a contribution to the psychopathology of adolescence - Donald Campbell 7 Vomit as a transitional object Em Farrell 8 Transitional objects in the treatment of primitive mental states Peter Giovacchini 9 D. W. Winnicott and the understanding of sexual perversions ' : Charles Socarides 10 On the capacity for being inside enough Murray Cox REFERENCES INDEX SERIES FOREWORD Brett Kahr School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regent's College, London T hroughout most of human history/ our ancestors have done rather poorly when dealing with acts of violence.. To cite but one of many shocking examples, let us perhaps recall a case from 1801, of an English boy aged only 13, who was executed by hanging on the gallows at Tyburn. What was his crime? It seems that he had been condemned to die for having stolen a spoon (Westwick, 1940). In most cases, our predecessors have either ignored murderousness and aggression, as in the case of Graeco-Roman infanticide, which occurred so regularly in the ancient world that it acquired an almost normative status (deMause, 1974; Kahr, 1 994); or they have punished murderousness and destruction with retaliatory sadism, a form of un conscious identification with the aggressor. Any history of criminology will readily reveal the cruel punishments inflicted upon prisoners throughout the ages, ranging from beatings and stockades, to more severe forms of torture, culminating in eviscerations, beheadings, or lynchings. Only during the last one hundred years have we begun to develop the capacity to respond more intelligently and more humanely to acts of dangerousness and destruction. Since the advent of psychoanalysis, ix
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