Psycho-Analytic Explorations

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by  Winnicott, Donald Woods

Psycho-Analytic Explorations

D.W WINNICOTT
Psycho-Analytic Explorations
Edited by
Clare Winnicott
Ray Shepherd
Madeleine Davis
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Contents
Preface xi
D.W.W.: A Reflection by Clare Winnicott i
Part One • Psycho-Analysis: Theory and Practice
1. Early Disillusion 1939 21
2. Knowing and Not Knowing:
A Clinical Example Undated 24
3. A Point in Technique Undated 26
4. Play in the Analytic Situation 1954 28
5. Fragments Concerning Varieties of Clinical
Confusion 1956 30
6. Excitement in the Aetiology of Coronary
Thrombosis 1957 34
7. Hallucination and Dehallucination 1957 39
8. Ideas and Definitions 1950s 43
9. Psychogenesis of a Beating Fantasy 1958 43
10. Nothing at the Centre 1959 49
11. The Fate of the Transitional Object 1959 53
12. Notes on Play Undated 39
13. Psycho-Neurosis in Childhood 1961 64
14. Further Remarks on the Theory of the Parent-Infant
Relationship 1961 73
15. A Note on a Case Involving Envy 1963 76
1 6.Perversions and Pregenital Fantasy 1963 79
17. Two Notes on the Use of Silence 1963 81
18. Fear of Breakdown 1963? 87
19. The Importance of the Setting in Meeting Regression in
Psycho-Analysis 1964 96
20. Psycho-Somatic Disorder 103
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I. Psycho-Somatic Illness in Its Positive and Negative
Aspects 1964 103
II. Additional Note on Psycho-Somatic Disorder 1969 ny
21. The Psychology of Madness: A Contribution from
Psycho-Analysis 1965 119
22. The Concept of Trauma in Relation to the Development
of the Individual within the Family 1965 130
23. Notes on Withdrawal and Regression 1965 149
24. New Light on Children’s Thinking 1965 152
25. Comment on Obsessional Neurosis and “Frankie” 1965 158
26. A Note on the Mother-Foetus Relationship 1960s 161
27. Absence and Presence of a Sense of Guilt Illustrated in
Two Patients 1966 163
28. On the Split-off Male and Female Elements 168
I. The Split-off Male and Female Elements to Be Found
in Men and Women 1966 169
II. Clinical Material 1959-1963 183
III. Answer to Comments 1968-1969 189
29. The Concept of Clinical Regression Compared with That
of Defence Organisation 1967 193
30. Addendum to “The Location of Cultural
Experience” 1967 200
31. Playing and Culture 1968 203
32. Interpretation in Psycho-analysis 1968 207
33. Thinking and Symbol-Formation 1968 213
34. On “The Use of an Object” 217
I. The Use of an Object and Relating through
Indentifications 1968 218
II. D.W.W.’s Dream Related to Reviewing Jung 1963 228
III. Notes Made on the Train 1965 231
IV. The Use of the Word “Use” 1968 233
V. Clinical Illustration of “The Use of an 235
Object” 1968
VI. Comments on My Paper “The Use of an 23 8
Object” 1968
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VII. The Use of an Object in the Context of Moses and 240
Monotheism 1969
35. Development of the Theme of the Mother’s Unconscious
as Discovered in Psycho-Analytic Practice 1969 247
36. The Mother-Infant Experience of Mutuality 1969 251
37. On the Basis for Self in Body 261
I. Basis for Self in Body 1970 261
II. Two Further Clinical Examples 1970 272
38. Individuation 1970 284
Part Two Psycho-Analytic Psychotherapy with
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Children and Adolescents
39. Private Practice 1955 291
40. The Squiggle Game 1964-1968 299
41. The Value of the Therapeutic Consultation 1965 318
42. Deductions Drawn from a Psychotherapeutic Interview
with an Adolescent 1964 325
43. A Child Psychiatry Case Illustrating Delayed Reaction
to Loss 1965 341
44. Physical and Emotional Disturbances in an Adolescent
Girl 1968 369
45. Mother’s Madness Appearing in the Clinical Material
as an Ego-Alien Factor 1969 375
Part Three On the Work of Other Analysts
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46. Susan Isaacs
I. Obituary 1948 383
II. Foreword to Susan Isaacs, by D. E. M. Gardner 387
47. Marion Milner
Critical Notice of On Not Being Able to Paint 1951 390
48. Ernest Jones
I. Obituary 1958 393
II. Funeral Address 1958 403
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49. Dorothy Burlingham
Review of A Study of Three Pairs of
Identical Twins 1953 408
50. W. R. D. Fairbairn
Review of Psycho-Analytic Studies of the
Personality 1953 413
51. John Bowlby
I. Review of Maternal Care and Mental Health 1953 423
II. Discussion of “Grief and Mourning in Infancy” 1959 426
32. Michael Balint
I. Character Types: The Foolhardy and the
Cautious 1954 433
II. Review of The Doctor, His Patient and the 43 8
Illness 1958
53. Melanie Klein: On Her Concept of Envy
I. Review of Envy and Gratitude 1959 443
II. The Beginnings of a Formulation of an Appreciation 447
and Criticism of Klein’s Envy Statement 1962
III. Roots of Aggression 1968 458
IV. Contribution to a Symposium on Envy and 462
Jealousy 1969
54. Joseph Sandler
Comments on “On the Concept of the Superego” i960 463
35. Sigmund Freud
Review ol Letters of Sigmund Freud, 1873—1939 1962 474
56. Harold F. Searles
Review of The Non-Human Environment in Normal
Development and in Schizophrenia 1963 478
57. C. G. Jung
Review of Memories, Dreams, Reflections 1964 482
38. Erik H. Erikson
Review of Childhood and Society 1963 493
59. Virginia Axline
A Commentary on Play Therapy 1960s 493
60. Willi Holier
A Tribute on the Occasion of Hoffer’s Seventieth
Birthday 1967 499
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61. James Strachey
Obituary 1969 jo6
62. Anna Freud
Review of indications for Child Analysis and
Other Papers 1969 311
Part Four On Other Forms of Treatment
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63. Physical Therapy of Mental Disorder:
Convulsion Therapy 515
I. Treatment of Mental Disease by Induction of
Fits 1943 316
II. Shock Treatment of Mental Disorder 1943 522
III. Shock Therapy 1944 523
IV. Introduction to a Symposium on the Psycho-Analytic 323
Contribution to the Theory of Shock Therapy 1944
V. Kinds of Psychological Effect of Shock 329
Therapy 1944
VI. Physical Therapy of Mental Disorder 1947 534
64. Physical Therapy of Mental Disorder: Leucotomy 342
I. Prefrontal Leucotomy 1943 342
II. Leucotomy 1949 343
III. Notes on the General Implications of 348
Leucotomy 1951
IV. Prefrontal Leucotomy 1956 333
6 5. Occupational Therapy
Review of Adrian Hills’ Book Art Versus Illness 1949 333
66. Behaviour Therapy 1969 338
67. Physiotherapy and Human Relations 1969 561
Postscript: D. W. W. on D. W. W. 369
Acknowledgments 3 83
Index 386