ABSTRACT
Britain’s Donald W. Winnicott (1896-1971) was one of the genuinely original thinkers in modern psychoanalysis. D. W. Winnicott: A Biographical Portrait’ is the first installment of Brett Kahr’s work on Winnicott; his “Preface” here tells us that he will shortly be publishing a full text on Winnicott’s life and work, as well as a volume of essays to celebrate Winnicott’s one hundredth birthday. Although Winnicott lived in a professional community beset by ideological rivalry between the adherents of Anna Freud as opposed to the disciples of Melanie Klein, Winnicott himself succeeded in avoiding sectarianism, at the same time as his work has been absorbed within the so-called mainstream of psychoanalysis.
