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Winnicott
Adam Phillips
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Description for Winnicott
Paperback. DW Winnicott's books, including "The Piggle", "Home Is Where We Start From" and "The Child", "Family and the Outside World" are still read, valued and argued with years after his death. This title attempts to get to grips with a writer, paediatrician and psychiatrist whose work with children and mothers continues to be relevant and fascinating. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: BG; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
D.W. Winnicott's remarkable books, including The Piggle, Home Is Where We Start From and The Child, Family and the Outside World (all published by Penguin) are still read, valued and argued with over thirty years after his death. Adam Phillips's short book, now issued with a new preface, is an elegant, thoughtful attempt to get to grips with a writer, paediatrician and psychiatrist whose work with children and mothers (and the wider implications their relationship has for all of us) continues to be profoundly relevant and fascinating.
D.W. Winnicott's remarkable books, including The Piggle, Home Is Where We Start From and The Child, Family and the Outside World (all published by Penguin) are still read, valued and argued with over thirty years after his death. Adam Phillips's short book, now issued with a new preface, is an elegant, thoughtful attempt to get to grips with a writer, paediatrician and psychiatrist whose work with children and mothers (and the wider implications their relationship has for all of us) continues to be profoundly relevant and fascinating.
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141031507
SKU
V9780141031507
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-88
About Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including most recently On Wanting to Change, Attention Seeking, In Writing, Unforbidden Pleasures and Missing Out. He is General Editor ... Read more
Reviews for Winnicott
The best living essayist writing in English He's brilliant Phillips radiates infectious charm
Sunday Times
Reading Phillips, you may be amused, vexed, dazzled. But the one thing you will never be is bored
Observer
He is perhaps single-handedly continuing the tradition of the world's best essayists
Sunday Times
Reading Phillips, you may be amused, vexed, dazzled. But the one thing you will never be is bored
Observer
He is perhaps single-handedly continuing the tradition of the world's best essayists