Boundary and Space

An Introduction to the Work of D.W. Winnicott

Madeleine Davis, David Wallbridge

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9780429911538
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

D.W. Winnicott - one of this centuries most important theorists - is the focus of the new edition of this extraordinary volume. Drawing extensively upon Winnicott's own papers and lectures, the main themes of his theory and personal development are revealed. His vast contributions to the understandings of the profound significance of infancy in the total life of human beings is brought to the foreground. And throughout, D.W. Winnicott - noted pediatrician and child analyst, revered teacher and theorist - shines through. Part I, The Background, discusses Winnicott's personal beliefs, and the evolution of his theory of emotional development. In Part II, The Theory of Emotional Development, his main themes are introduced: Basic Assumptions, Early Psychic Functioning, Adapting to Shared Reality, and The Environmental Provision. Part III, Boundary and Space, considers some of the implications of Winnicott's theory of the development for the individual, and for society. Boundary and Space provides for the first systemic presentation of D. W. Winnicott's developmental and clinical methodology.

Index

Adolescence, 9, 81–5, 149,

Adoption of children, 92, 108, 156

Aggression, 20, 58, 69, 72, 76, 78–79, 84, 118, 146, 149, 164,

and adolescence, 84

and antisocial tendency, 80

and capacity for concern, 74–6

and death instinct, 3, 69

and depressive position, 182

Kleinian view of, 13, 69

as life force, 69

and separation of me/not me, 70

and object permanence, 70–71

Aichhorn, August, 183

Alone, the capacity to be, 34–36, 61

Ambivalence, 75

Anencephalic infants, 50

Annihilation, 44, 171, 188

Antisocial tendency, 15, 78–81, 84, 145, 148, 164, 170, 185

and adolescence, 84, 149

and democracy, 145–6

and deprivation, 78, 164, 185

and destructiveness, 78, 80, 164

and family management, 78–80

and hope, 79–80, 185

and psychopathy, 80, 185

and stealing, 78, 80

and time sense, 170

Anxiety, 3, 9, 14, 19, 44, 46, 58, 75, 76, 80, 148, 152, 157, 165, 171,

in Spatula Game, 19

unthinkable, 44, 46, 80, 171, 188

Apperception, 65

Artists:

and creativity, 165

and form 139, 140

and integrity, 49

Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 180, 186

Association of Social Workers, 100

Association of Teachers of Mathematics, 172

Asthma, 18–19

Autism, 46, 47, 115

Autonomy and self-control, 142

Babies. See Infants

Babies and Their Mothers (Winnicott), 175, 189

Baby, no such thing as a, 30–31, 182...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• I. The Background
• II. The Theory of Emotional Development
• III. Boundary and Space
• Endpiece
• Appendix: The Writing of D.W. Winnicott
• Bibliography
• Index