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Book SynopsisTo celebrate the 25th anniversary of the publication of D.W. Winnicott's "Playing and Reality", a number of organizations - including the University of Milan, the European Federation for Psychoanalysis, the Italian Association of Psychoanalysis, the Peruvian Psychoanalytic Society, together with the Squiggle Foundation and Winnicott Trust - organized a major international conference on Winnicott's work, entitled "The Psyche-Soma: from Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis". Derived from that conference, "Squiggles and Spaces" looks to update and elaborate Winnicott's theoretical insights and clinical findings.
Volume two distinguishes itself from the first volume primarily in two ways. On the one hand, a significant portion of the book is dedicated to a comparative study of Winnicott s work and that of his noteworthy contemporaries (or near-contemporaries). Among these are Ferenczi, Balint, Tustin, Bion and C.G. Jung. The second feature of this volume is the wide array of essays by Italian psychoanalysts working in the tradition of Winnicott.
Trade Review'IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE ANYONE READING THIS BOOK AND FAILING TO BECOME A MORE SENSITIVE THERAPIST AND PERSON. A TREASURE HOUSE OF CHAPTERS BY PEOPLE WHO KNEW WINNICOTT OR WERE TOUCHED BY HIS WORK, IT HELPS FILL OUT ONE'S SENSE OF WINNICOTT'S SIGNIFICANCE YET LEAVES ENOUGH LOOSE STRINGS TO PULL ON FOR ONE'S OWN JOURNEY.' Michael Eigen 'IT IS HEARTENING TO SEE AND EXPERIENCE SUCH INTENSIVE AND PRODUCTIVE ANALYTIC THINKING THAT TAKES AS ITS INSPIRATION WINNICOTT'S WORK. ALTHOUGH THIS VOLUME ILLUMINATES SOMETHING OF WINNICOTT'S INFLUENCE IN ITALY, IT STANDS, LIKE ITS PREDECESSOR, AS A RICH TRIBUTE TO AND EXTENSION OF HIS IMPACT ON PSYCHOANALYSTS AND PSYCHOTHERAPISTS AROUND THE WORLD.' Paul Williams
Table of ContentsPart 1 - On Babies, Mothers and Fathers.
1. The Interface between Mother and Baby.
2. Self-states and The Maternal Integration Function.
3. reparation in Respect of Mother's Organized Defence Against Depression.
4. What about The Parents?
5. The Father as Function, Environment and Object
Part 2 - Illusion, Creativity and The Self.
6. Illusion and Reality in The Work of D. W. Winnicott.
7. Interminable Illusion.
8. Psychotherapy and The Squiggle Game, a sophisticated Game of Hide-and-seek.
9. The Parent-child Relationship in Italian renaissance Painting
Part 3 - Winnicott and Clinical Theory a) Trauma and psychosis.
10. Cumulative Trauma, When all Does not go Well in The Everyday Life of The Infant.
11. Psychosis and The Transitional Area, a Clinical Case Study b) empathy, Hate and Countertransference.
12. A Clinical Approach to Empathy.
13. The 'kind-hearted' Versus The Good Analyst, Empathy and Hatred in countertransference c) Acting-out.
14. Antisocial Acting-out as a Substitute for the Spontaneous Gesture in Adolescence.
15. Antisocial Acting-out as a Defence against Breakdown.
Part 4 - Winnicott and The Treatment of Psychosomatic patients.
16. Winnicott and The Psyche-soma.
17. Primary Maternal Preoccupation, pregnancy and Child-rearing.
18. From The Aesthetics of External Objects to The quality of Internal Objects, on The Diagnosis of Alopecia in Childhood and adolescence.
19. Psychosomatics in Jung and Winnicott.
20. Interrupted Stories.
Part 5 - Potential Spaces, Winnicott in The World of Psychoanalysis.
21. Winnicott and ferenczi, Trauma and The Maternal Analyst.
22. A Comparison of The Thought and work of Dinald Winnicott and Michale Balint.
23. The Influence of Winnicott on the Evolution of Frances Tustin's Thinking.
24. C. G. Jung's Memories, Dreams, reflections, Notes on The Review.
25. Winnicott and Bion, on Some Uncanny affinities.
Part 6 - Appendix, Commentaries and Discussions.
26. Reflections on nina Farhi's 'psychotherapy and The Squiggle Game'.
27. With Downcast Eyes.
28. Empathy, Love or Skill?
29. A Discussion of Bernard Barnett's Comparison of D. W. Winnicott and Michael Balint.
30. Between C. G. Jung and D. W. Winnicott references.
