Table of Contents

Preface. Acknowledgements. Part I: The First Year of Life: Modern Views on the Emotional Development. The Relationship of a Mother to her Baby at the Beginning. Growth and Development in Immaturity. On Security. The Five Year Old. Integrative and Disruptive Factors in Family Life. The Family Affected by Depressive Illness in One or Both Parents. The Effect of Psychosis on Family Life. The Effect of Psychotic Parents on the Emotional Development of the Child. Adolescence: Struggling Through the Doldrums. The Family and Emotional Maturity. Part II: Theoretical Statements of the Field of Child Psychiatry. The Contribution of Psycho-Analysis to Midwifery. Advising Parents. Casework with Mentally Ill Children. The Deprived Child and How He Can Be Compensated for Loss of Family Life. Group Influences and the Maladjusted Child: The School Aspect. Some Thoughts on the Meaning of the Word Democracy.

About the Author

D.W. Winnicott (1896-1971). An internationally renowned psychoanalyst and paediatrician, Winnicott is most famous for his conception of the Transitional Object or "security blanket".

Reviews

'Psychiatrists and social scientists, sitting half-way between the priest and engineer, enjoy a hot spot in our democracy. It takes a man with Winnicott's creative flair to assure us that some can preserve their integrity while sitting there.' - New Society