Winnicott

Writer, paediatrician and psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott became internationally renowned for his work with mothers and children, and his books such as The Piggle and Home is Where We Start From. In this updated edition of Adam Phillips's acclaimed biography of Winnicott, now with a new preface, he gets to grips with a figure who made a huge contribution to our understanding of human development, and continues to be read, valued and argued over decades after his death.

Through an exploration of Winnicott's life and close readings of his most important papers, Adam Phillips traces his growing interest in the mother-infant relationship and the developmental process of children, and, above all, his radical, though often understated, revision of the work of Sigmund Freud and Melanie Klein. In this sometimes critical, yet always penetrating and deeply considered, account of his life and work, Winnicott takes his place with Klein and Lacan as one of the very few great innovators within the psychoanalytic tradition.