Winnicott's Babies and Winnicott's Patients: Psychoanalysis as Transitional Space

Winnicott’s thinking continues to grow in importance in psychoanalysis today.

In this book, between two contextualizing and helpful baby observation pieces (the first looking in detail at a baby observation and the experience of engaging in it; the second a summarizing and reflective report of the Baby Observation) are chapters that treat Winnicott’s thinking and the comparison of the original baby with the one who appears in the course of an adult therapy. These are explained first by situating Winnicott’s thinking historically and then by taking a detailed look at each of his three stages of dependence—absolute dependence, relative dependence and going towards independence—in both the developmental and clinical situations.