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Title: Bringing the discoverer of the Transitional Object to life.
Review: Purchased from Amazon,Winnicott: His Life And Workis a wonderful and well written biography. It clearly explains Dr Winnicott's theoretical development, and where and how he disagrees with Freud and Klein, as well as illustrates that Winnicott was a human being with many significant personal problems he struggled with. It also portrays very nicely the politics that went on in London among the Kleinians, Freudians, and Anna Freud during the period. It is well annotated, for example it cites the only available source to find a clear write up of what is was like to be in psychoanalysis with Dr. Winnicott (A biography of Harry Guntrip who was in psychoanalysis with Dr. W.) It made Winnicott and his work come alive for me; and inspired me to return and reread his significant papers with renewed interest, and a better understanding of their utility in a clinical setting.
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