Winnicott: Life and Work

by F. Robert Rodman

Book Overview

This bold and witty, yet scholarly biography is the first to trace the full life and work of this highly influential and brilliant pediatrician-turned-analyst. This insightful story probes the roots in Winnicott's personal life of his influential concepts, such as the "holding environment" so crucial to psychotherapy and the "transitional object" known to every parent as the "security blanket." His astonishing career involved many of the great figures...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738209643
• ISBN13: 9780738209647
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Westview Publishing
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"