ABSTRACT
As I delved into the material on Winnicott, I could not locate literature on the application of his ideas to couple therapy. For me, loving the work on Winnicott as I do, the silence on this topic was deafening. This is more apparent in light of the large recent literature continuing to develop the application of Winnicott’s ideas to psychoanalysis and child therapy (Caldwell and Joyce, 2011). Also, this lack of application of Winnicott to couples is odd, given the current trend of applying other psychodynamic ideas to couples. Today, theorists and therapists using attachment, intersubjectivity, psychoanalytic and object relations theories are major contributors to couple therapy (Gurman, 2008).
