Volume 33, Number 12 · July 17, 1986
Dr. Right
By Rosemary Dinnage
Home Is Where We Start From: Essays by a Psychoanalyst
by D.W. Winnicott, compiled and edited by Clare Winnicott, by Ray Shepherd, by Madeleine Davis
Norton, 287 pp., $18.95
Holding and Interpretation: Fragment of an Analysis
by D.W. Winnicott
The Hogarth Press (London), 202 pp., £15.00
Donald Winnicott was a brilliant and controversial English psychoanalyst who died in 1971. Often regarded during his lifetime by uptight colleagues as an oddity, a 'wild' analyst, he has since his death so risen in reputation that a foundation and a journal of Winnicott studies have been started and work that he left behind at his death has been appearing in posthumous volumes. Home Is Where We Start From is a collection mainly of informal talks given to teachers, social workers, and others during the Sixties. Holding and Interpretation is an almost verbatim transcription of the last six months of an analysis; it was published as part of a miscellany some years ago and now appears with an introduction and appendices.
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