ABSTRACT
It is true that at the time author proposed to see D. W. Winnicott in September of 1965, he had already been recommended to author by someone as reliably intellectual as Dr Charles Rycroft as "the genius of British analysis". Winnicott said that he had had "a disturbed adolescence". He had been "very normal" until he was nine years old, and then suddenly he could not remember his dreams any more. As far as Winnicott was concerned, Freud's technique was ideally suited for the psychoneurotics, which "one sees so rarely", largely due to the fact that people can read for themselves widely circulated texts "like the Pelican editions of S. Freud's works". Although Winnicott had riot trained iri psychiatry, he was notable for being more open to the significance of psychosis than the traditional Freudians. Winnicott was struck by the example of how John Rickmari had gone to Freud with a particular infantile memory.
