The Language of Winnicott: A Dictionary and Guide to Understanding His Work [Hardcover]

Jan Abram (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 28, 1997 | ISBN-10: 1568217005 | ISBN-13: 978-1568217000 | Edition: 1

This book helps us to read Winnicott in all of his richness. Each of his themes is organized into a lexicon of words and phrases which represent the major theories in his work.

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This book fills a gap in the literature. What Laplanche and Pontalis have done for Freud, and Hinshelwood for Klein, has now been rendered by Jan Abram for Winnicott, undoubtedly one of the greats of modern day psychoanalysis. Judy Cooper, British Journal of Psychotherapy Jan Abram has given us a gem of a book. It is clearly the result of many years studying, discussing, and teaching. Jennifer M. Bonovitz, Psychoanalytic Books Abram's extremely helpful and lively guide includes a complete bibliography (compiled by Harry Karnac, publisher and friend of Winnicott and the London analytic community), arranged both alphabetically and chronologically from 1919 to 1989. Given Winnicott's productivity including his many talks, letters, and broadcasts as well as books and papers as purveyors of his ideas, the compilation is highly valuable to scholars. R. H. Balsam, Yale University, in CHOICE This is a scholarly piece of work and should be on the bookshelf of all readers of psychoanalysis. Jeanette Beaufoy, Australian Journal of Psychotherapy There are many works on Winnicott. The originality of this one is that it is as close to an encyclopedia. People often use - in fact misuse - Winnicott's expressions inappropriately (I.e. false self), or sometimes they wrongly attribute to Winnicott's interpretations of ordinary concepts of psychoanalysis (I.e. sexuality). Thanks to Jan Abram, this will not pass unnoticed any more. Andre Green --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Jan Abram is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in London. She was appointed Director of The Squiggle Foundation for the period 1996 - 2000, and is also following the analytic training at the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, London. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: Jason Aronson; 1 edition (January 28, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568217005
• ISBN-13: 978-1568217000
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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This review is from: The Language of Winnicott: A Dictionary of Winnicott's Use of Words (Paperback)

The language of Winnicott is a very useful dictionary for students who begin to study Winnicott's theory, as well as for experienced psychanalists involved on research -in fact, continues to be useful for writing my Master's in Psychanalysis paper.