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Description for Human Nature
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The ideas of Donald Winnicott are scattered through numerous clinical papers and short, popular expositions. He made only one attempt to write and overview of his ideas, and this is it. It remained unfinished at his death in 1971. It is an ambitious work. The chapters offer his perspective on most of the main issues in psychoanalytic theory - for example, psychosomatics; the Oedipus complex; infantile sexuality; the unconscious; the depressive position; manic defence; transitional objects; aggression. Winnicott has here made a major synthetic effort, one which is regarded as the best of his posthumous ... Read more
The ideas of Donald Winnicott are scattered through numerous clinical papers and short, popular expositions. He made only one attempt to write and overview of his ideas, and this is it. It remained unfinished at his death in 1971. It is an ambitious work. The chapters offer his perspective on most of the main issues in psychoanalytic theory - for example, psychosomatics; the Oedipus complex; infantile sexuality; the unconscious; the depressive position; manic defence; transitional objects; aggression. Winnicott has here made a major synthetic effort, one which is regarded as the best of his posthumous ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Free Association Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780946960965
SKU
V9780946960965
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Reviews for Human Nature
...arguably the most influential psychoanalyst since the days of Freud and Jung. Peter Lomas, Times Literary Supplement