Talking To Parents [Paperback]

[Winnicott's] brilliant insights are based on a deep understanding of the parent-infant processes coupled with firm conviction that most parents want desperately to do well by their children. --T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.

Here was a man who could be 'popular,' completely accessible, without every ceasing to be profound; a man who ranged audaciously far and wide in the realms of thought, but who always came back to home base, the psychology of the child. . . . [His] ideas, too 'premature' to be fully understood in his lifetime, have proved crucial in the exciting coming together of psychoanalysis and developmental biology that is occurring today. --Oliver Sacks, M.D.

Winnicott helped to bridge the gap for me between pediatrics and the dynamics of child development. --Benjamin Spock, M.D.

The gentleman wrote powerfully, and with sensitivity, intelligence, and the fruits of many years of experience. --Burton White, Ph.D.

What I find most enjoyable is [Winnicott's] enthusiastic, optimistic tone, his appreciation of a mother's natural talents, and the real pleasure he finds available to parents in rearing their young. --Marshall Klaus, M.D.

D. W. Winnicott(1896-1974), pediatrician and psychoanalyst, influenced several generations in the fields of child psychiatry, social work, and child development as well as psychoanalysis. He is known especially for his bollã'