ABSTRACT
In 1958, Mrs Barbara Dockar-Drysdale, one of D. W. Winnicott's most devoted students and supervisees, wrote a poem: "A Sonnet for Winnicott". This poem moved Winnicott deeply; he did not throw it away but kept it preserved among his papers, and author found it in the Donald W. Winnicott Papers, in the Archives of Psychiatry at the Cornell Medical Center in New York City, New York. In 1977, some six years after the death of Dr Donald Winnicott, his widow, Mrs Clare Winnicott, laid the foundation stone for the Donald Winnicott Centre, a specialist treatment unit for physically and mentally handicapped children at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children in London's East End. Dr Charles Rycroft knew Winnicott well during the course of his work at the British Psycho-Analytical Society and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, and he shared many memories with author from the period of his association with Winnicott.
