0-8133-1027-X the Soviet Nationality Reader : the Disintegration in Context

D. W. Winnicott (1896-1974), pediatrician and psychoanalyst, influenced several generations in the fields of child psychiatry, social work, and child development as well as psychoanalysis. He is known especially for his bold and brilliant imagination, and his unique, even poetic style.

Part 1 Observation, intuition, and empathy: towards an objective study of human nature; yes, but how do we know it's true? Part 2 Early infant development: primary introduction to external reality - the early stages; environmental needs; the early stages; total dependence and essential independence. Part 3 The family: the bearing of emotional development on feeding problems; sleep refusal in children; the effect of loss on the young; out of the mouths of adolescents; the delinquent and habitual offender; a clinical approach to family problems - the family. Part 4 Starting school: mental hygiene of the pre-school child; the teacher, the parent, and the doctor. Part 5 Case studies and observations: a clinical example of symptomatology; notes on a little boy; the niffle. Part 6 Adoption: two adopted children; pitfalls in adoption; adopted children in adolescence. Part 7 Psychosomatic problems: contribution to a discussion on enuresis; papular urticaria and the dynamics of skin sensation; short communication on enuresis; child psychiatry - the body as affected by psychological factors; on cardiac neurosis in children. Part 8 Autism and schizophrenia: three reviews of books on autism; autism; the aetiology of infantile schizophrenia in terms of adaptive failure. Part 9 Professional care of the growing child: training for child psychiatry - the paediatric department of psychology; notes on the time factor in treatment; the association for child psychology and psychiatry observed as a group phenomenon; a link between paediatrics and child psychology - clinical observations; child psychiatry, social work, and alternative care.