ABSTRACT

This volume contains ninety-two works by this renowned writer, theoretician, and clinician. Includes critiques of Melanie Klein's ideas and insights into the works of other leading psychoanalysts, and thoughts on such concepts as play in the analytic situation, the fate of the transitional object, regression in psychoanalysis, and the use of silence in psychotherapy.

chapter |18 pages

D.W.W.: A Reflection

part 1|270 pages

Psycho-Analysis: Theory and Practice

chapter 1|3 pages

Early Disillusion

Dated 24 October 1939

chapter 4|2 pages

Play in the Analytic Situation

Dated 5 November 1954

chapter 6|5 pages

Excitement in the Aetiology of Coronary Thrombosis

Notes for a lecture given to the Society for Psycho-Somatic Research, University College, London, 5 December 1957

chapter 7|4 pages

Hallucination and Dehallucination

Written for a seminar on 3 October 1957

chapter 8|2 pages

Ideas and Definitions

Probably early 1950s 1

chapter 10|4 pages

Nothing at the Centre

Dated 19 June 1959

chapter 11|6 pages

The Fate of the Transitional Object

Preparation for a talk given to the Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Glasgow, 5 December 1959

chapter 12|5 pages

Notes on Play

Undated 1

chapter 13|9 pages

Psycho-Neurosis in Childhood

A paper given to the Scandinavian Orthopsychiatric Congress, Helsinki, 8 September 1961

chapter 14|3 pages

Further Remarks on the Theory of the Parent-Infant Relationship

Part of a discussion of papers by Phyllis Greenacre and Winnicott which took place at the Twenty-Second International Psycho-Analytic Congress, Edinburgh, 1961 1

chapter 15|3 pages

A Note on a Case Involving Envy

Dated January 1963

chapter 16|2 pages

Perversions and Pregenital Fantasy

Unfinished paper written in 1963

chapter 18|9 pages

Fear of Breakdown

Written in 1963? 1

chapter 19|7 pages

The Importance of the Setting in Meeting Regression in Psycho-Analysis

Written for a seminar given to third-year students at the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 9 July 1964

chapter 21|11 pages

The Psychology of Madness: a Contribution from Psycho-Analysis

A paper prepared for the British Psycho-Analytical Society, October 1965

chapter 22|19 pages

The Concept of Trauma in Relation to the Development of the Individual within the Family

An amalgamation of two similar versions of an essay written in March and May 1965

chapter 23|3 pages

Notes on Withdrawal and Regression

Written for a seminar in December 1965

chapter 24|6 pages

New Light on Children's Thinking

Introductory lecture given at a conference for members of the teaching profession held at the Devon Centre for Further Education, 3 January 1965

chapter 25|3 pages

Comment on Obsessional Neurosis and "Frankie"

A written version of discussion remarks made at the Twenty-Fourth International Psycho-Analytical Congress, Amsterdam, July 1965 1

chapter 26|2 pages

A Note on the Mother-Foetus Relationship

Undated; probably written in the mid-1960s

chapter 29|7 pages

The Concept of Clinical Regression Compared with That of Defence Organisation

A paper given at a Psychotherapy Symposium at McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, 27 October 1967 1

chapter 31|4 pages

Playing and Culture

A talk given to the Imago Group, 12 March 1968

chapter 32|6 pages

Interpretation in Psycho-Analysis

Dated 19 February 1968

chapter 33|4 pages

Thinking and Symbol-Formation

Undated: probably written in 1968

chapter 38|5 pages

Individuation

A talk given to the Medical Section of the British Psychological Society, October 1970

part 2|94 pages

Psycho-Analytic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents

chapter 39|8 pages

Private Practice

A paper given at the annual conference of the British Psychological Society, Durham, 17 April 1955

chapter 40|19 pages

The Squiggle Game

An amalgamation of two papers: one, unpublished, written in 1964, the other published 1968 1

chapter 42|16 pages

Deductions Drawn from a Psychotherapeutic Interview with an Adolescent

A paper given at the Twentieth Child Guidance Inter-Clinic Conference, London School of Economics, 11 April 1964 1

chapter 43|28 pages

A Child Psychiatry Case Illustrating Delayed Reaction to Loss

Written for a collection of essays in memory of Marie Bonaparte, 1965 1

chapter 45|8 pages

Mother's Madness Appearing in the Clinical Material as an Ego-Alien Factor

Written for a book on psycho-analytical psychotherapy 1969 1

part 3|130 pages

On the Work of Other Analysts

chapter 47|3 pages

Marion Milner

Critical Notice of On Not Being Able to Paint 1 1951

chapter 49|5 pages

Dorothy Burlingham

Review of A Study of Three Pairs of Identical Twins 1 1953

chapter 50|10 pages

W. R. D. Fairbairn

Review (written with M. Masud R. Khan) of Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality 1 1953

chapter 54|9 pages

Joseph Sandler

Comments on "On the Concept of the Superego" 1 Delivered at a Scientific Meeting of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, 7 December 1960

chapter 55|4 pages

Sigmund Freud

Review of Letters of Sigmund Freud, 1873–1939 1 1962

chapter 56|4 pages

Harold F. Searles

Review of The Non-Human Environment in Normal Development and in Schizophrenia 1 1963

chapter 57|11 pages

C. G. Jung

Review of Memories, Dreams, Reflections 1 1964

chapter 58|2 pages

Erik H. Erikson

Review of Childhood and Society 1 1965

chapter 59|4 pages

Virginia Axline

A Commentary on Play Therapy 1 Undated; probably mid-1960s

chapter 60|7 pages

Willi Hoffer

A Tribute on the Occasion of Hoffer's Seventieth Birthday 1 Dated 13 June 1967

chapter 61|5 pages

James Strachey

Obituary 1 1969

chapter 62|2 pages

Anna Freud

Review of Indications for Child Analysis and Other Papers 1 1969

part 4|56 pages

On Other Forms of Treatment

chapter 65|3 pages

Occupational Therapy

Review of Adrian Hill's Book Art Versus Illness 1 1949

chapter 66|3 pages

Behaviour Therapy

A letter to the editor of Child Care News, June 1969, replying to an article advocating the use of behaviour therapy in the treatment of maladjusted children