ABSTRACT
Although the great English practitioner Dr. Donald Winnicott will best be remembered for his iconic achievements in the fields of child mental health and adult psychoanalysis, one must remember that, in addition to all of his clinical and theoretical discoveries, he also made an enormous impact upon British media by having broadcast about a range of psychological topics throughout the middle years of the twentieth century. Following on from the previous chapter, Professor Kahr concludes this collection of essays with an examination of Donald Winnicott’s pioneering work as the veritable progenitor of media psychoanalysis in Great Britain. Undeterred by Sigmund Freud’s ambivalence and reluctance, Winnicott forged ahead to provide the foundations of clinical media psychology. As a Winnicott scholar of long standing, Kahr has drawn upon his extensive historical research (based upon hundreds of oral history interviews and upon an examination of thousands of unpublished, archival letters) to provide a very detailed account of Donald Winnicott’s work in this arena.
