THE FACILITATING PARTNERSHIP ABOUT THE AUTHORS Jeffrey S. Applegate, D.S.W., is a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, where he maintains a part-time private practice. A native midwestemer, he obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees in social work from Indiana University. He was a Fellow in the Post Master's Training Program in Clinical Social Work at the Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas, and earned his doctorate in clinical social work theory and research from the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work. Jennifer M. Bonovitz, Ph.D., is in the private practice of clinical social work and psychoanalysis in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania and is a guest faculty member at the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute and the Faculty Institute of the Pennsylvania Clinical Social Work Society. Born in Dublin, Ireland, Dr. Bonovitz earned her Bachelor of Arts and Diploma of Social Work from the University of Sydney, Australia. She received her M.S.W. from the Smith College School for Social Work, which she attended on a Fulbright Scholarship, and her doctorate from the Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. She is a graduate of the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute, the first social worker ever accepted to this program. THE FACILITATING PARTNERSHIP A Winnicottian Approach for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals s. s. w. D. JEFFREY APPLEGATE, AND M. BoNovrrz, PH.D. JENNIFER A JASON ARONSON BOOK ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Lanham •Boulder •New York• Toronto •Oxford A JASON ARONSON BOOK ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Published in the United States of America by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 www.rowmanlittlefield.com PO Box 317 Oxford OX29RU,UK Copyright © 1995 by Jason Aronson Inc. First Rowman & Littlefield edition 2004 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 permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Applegate, Jeffrey S. The facilitating partnership : a Winnicottian approach for social workers and other helping professionals I by Jeffrey S. Applegate and Jennifer M. Bonovitz. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 978-0-7657-0201-2 1. Psychiatric social work-Methodology. 2. Winnicott, D. W. (Donald Woods) 1896-1971. I. Bonovitz, Jennifer M. II. Title. HV689.A66 1995 362.2'0425--dc20 94-49143 Printed in the United States of America 9"' The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSl/NISO Z39.48-l992. Contents PART I WINNICOTT: PERSON, THEORIST, CLINICIAN 1 1 Finding an Approach to Helping 3 2 Winnicott's Developmental Theory 27 3 Winnicott's Concepts of Vulnerability and Disturbance 59 PART II PRACTICE 81 4 The Holding Environment 83 s Ego Relatedness 121 6 The Transitional Process 155 vi Contents 7 Object Relating and Object Use 179 8 The True and False Self 203 PART III BROADER IMPLICATIONS 229 9 The Good-Enough Social Worker 231 References 261 Credits 277 Index 279 PART I WINNIC OTT: PERSON, THEORIST, CLINICIAN 1 FINDING AN APPROACH TO HELPING