ABSTRACT
Anyone who has read this far is aware of how deeply D.W. Winnicott's work has affected me. This is my declaration of independence from him. It was published as the companion piece to a re-publication of his famous mid-century paper "Hate in the Countertransference" (which had appeared in Voices in the 1950s) in a "Best of" issue to finish out the millennium, Winter 1999. If you haven't read Winnicott's paper, you should; it can also be found in his first book, Collected Papers: Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis (1958). In Voices I prefaced the master's paper with the following introduction:
"In reading Winnicott's classic, younger readers should be aware that his 1949 categories of 'psychosis' and 'schizophrenia' were far broader than those of the present day. Many of us now find these ideas most useful for understanding the spectrum of developmentally traumatized personalities, regardless of diagnostic category."
