ABSTRACT
From 1923, Winnicott was one of the earliest paediatricians working at the Paddington Green Children’s Hospital in London. He started analysis with James Strachey the same year, and qualified as an analyst in 1934. A year later he qualified as the first male child analyst. Thereafter he emphasised and evolved certain concepts: (i) the environment-individual set-up; (ii) transitional phenomena; and (iii) the use of an object. These formulations resonated with both Freud and Klein, although overall his theories created a new paradigm.
