Table of Contents

The Collected Works of D.W. Winnicott
Table of Contents

Volume 1: 1911-1938 | Volume 2: 1939-1945 | Volume 3: 1946-1951
Volume 4: 1952-1955 | Volume 5: 1955-1959 | Volume 6: 1960-1963
Volume 7: 1964-1966 | Volume 8: 1967-1968 | Volume 9: 1969-1971
Volume 10: Therapeutic Consultations in Child Psychiatry | Volume 11: Human Nature and The Piggle
Volume 12: Appendices and Bibliographies

Volume 1: 1911-1938 (back to top) Foreword by Christopher Bollas Acknowledgements Editors’ Note Introduction to Volume 1 - Ken Robinson	Part 1 School to Medical Training, 1911–1920s Part 2 First Contributions to Medicine, 1926–1930 Part 3 Clinical Notes on Disorders of Childhood, 1931 Part 4 Further Writings, 1932–1939
See the full Volume 1 Table of Contents >> General Introduction to the Collected Works - Lesley Caldwell and Helen Taylor Robinson References Contributors Credits Index

Volume 2: 1939–1945 (back to top)

Introduction to Volume 2 - Christopher Reeves

Part 1 1939

Part 2 1940

Part 3 1941

Part 4 1942

Part 5 1943

Part 6 1944

Part 7 1945

Volume 2, 1939–45, covers the years of World War II. It contains an introduction by the late senior child psychotherapist, Christopher Reeves. The volume includes letters to colleagues, including one to the British Medical Journal with Emanuel Miller and John Bowlby regarding the war and children.

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Volume 3: 1946–1951 (back to top)

Introduction to Volume 3 - Vincenzo Bonaminio and Paolo Fabozzi

Part 1 1946

Part 2 1947

Part 3 1948

Part 4 1949

Part 5 1950

Part 6 1951

Volume 3, 1949-1951, includes papers on juvenile delinquency; critical interventions in debates on the physical treatment of mental disorder, in particular leucotomy and electroconvulsive therapy; and a selection of letters to colleagues, notable among which are those regarding Melanie Klein and the Kleinians within the British Society.

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Volume 4: 1952–1955 (back to top)

Introduction to Volume 4 - Dominique Scarfone

Part 1 1952

Part 2 1953

Part 3 1954

Part 4 1955

Volume 4, 1952-1955, contains texts of further BBC broadcasts and papers on Winnicott’s contribution to the psychoanalytic study of psychosis and the meaning of regression in analysis, and the first published version of ‘Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena’ and the whole case history Holding and Interpretation.

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Volume 5: 1955–1959 (back to top)

Introduction to Volume 5 - Jennifer Johns and Marcus Johns

Part 1 1955

Part 2 1956

Part 3 1957

Part 4 1958

Part 5 1959

Volume 5, 1955–1959, covers an extremely productive period of Winnicott’s work in broadcasting, social work, child psychiatry and psychoanalysis. Included in this volume are important papers covering diverse areas of Winnicott’s work, including ‘The Anti-social Tendency’, ‘Primary Maternal Preoccupation’, ‘The Mother’s Contribution to Society’, ‘The Capacity to be Alone’, and responses to Klein’s 1957 book Envy and Gratitude.

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Volume 6: 1960–1963 (back to top)

Introduction to Volume 6 - Angela Joyce

Part 1 1960

Part 2 1961

Part 3 1962

Part 4 1963

Volume 6, 1960-1963, contains one of Winnicott’s most important papers, ‘The Theory of the Parent-Infant Relationship’, along with papers on aggression, the false self, guilt, adolescence, time in psychoanalytic treatment, the capacity for concern, the value of dependence, fear of breakdown, and communicating and not communicating.

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Volume 7: 1964–1966 (back to top)

Introduction to Volume 7 - Anna Ferruta

Part 1 1964

Part 2 1965

Part 3 1966

Volume 7, 1964–66, contains an important selection of articles and letters, including articles on the false self, psychosis, psychosomatic illness, regression, children’s thinking, trauma, aggression, dissociation, psychoanalytic research, male and female elements, guilt, the unconscious and a selection of letters on psychoanalytic and more general topics.

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Volume 8: 1967–1968 (back to top)

Introduction to Volume 8 - Ann Horne

Part 1 1967

Part 2 1968

Volume 8, 1967–68, gathers together Winnicott’s interests in play and playing, and in health, including papers on infantile schizophrenia, the squiggle game, the roots of aggression, interpretation, his significant late paper ‘The Use of an Object’, and his obituary of James Strachey.

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Volume 9: 1969–1971 (back to top)

Introduction to Volume 9 - Arne Jemstedt

Part 1 1969

Part 2 1970

Part 3 1971

Part 4 Undated Work and Winnicott’s ‘Ideas’ File

Volume 9, 1969–1971, contains a selection of letters from the last years of Winnicott’s life. The work includes further developments of his work on envy, the use of an object, psychosomatics, the impact of the mother’s unconscious, living creatively, communication, adolescence and rebellion and the final version of transitional objects and transitional phenomena.

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Volume 10: Therapeutic Consultations in Child Psychiatry (back to top)

Introduction to Volume 10 - Marco Armellini

Therapeutic Consultations in Child Psychiatry

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Volume 10, Therapeutic Consultations in Child Psychiatry, is a posthumous publication of twenty-one case histories of children and adolescents taken over a ten-year period. It concerns the application of psychoanalysis to child psychiatry. The technique in these reported cases usually takes the form of what Winnicott describes as the Squiggle Game.

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Volume 11: Human Nature and The Piggle (back to top)

Introduction to Volume 11 - Steven Groarke

Part 1 Human Nature

Part I The Human Child Examined: Soma, Psyche, Mind

Part II The Emotional Development of the Human Being

Part III Establishment of Unit Status

Part IV From Instinct Theory to Ego Theory

Part 2 The Piggle: An Account of the Psychoanalytic Treatment of a Little Girl

Volume 11 consists of two books of Winnicott’s writings, Human Nature and The Piggle, both published posthumously. Human Nature gathers together Winnicott’s own teaching notes on the subject of human growth and development with other unpublished writings from this period.

Afterword: By the Parents of the Piggle

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References

Contributors

Index

Volume 12: Appendices and Bibliographies (back to top)

Note on the Compilation, Structure,

and Contents of the Collected Works - Robert Adès

Introduction to Volume 12 - Robert Adès

Part 1 Winnicott’s Publications

Part 2 Winnicott’s Correspondence

Part 3 Winnicott’s Lectures, Broadcasts, and Audio Recordings

Part 5 Selected Drawings and Signatures

Volume 12 contains chronological and alphabetical bibliographies of Winnicott’s work, a list of his published correspondence and biographies of each correspondent, tables of contents of all previously published books, several unrealized plans for anthologies of papers compiled by Winnicott, lists of new and edited work, lists of all the lectures and broadcasts he gave over his life, and a selection of drawings, squiggles and Winnicott’s creative signatures.

Reference List of the Collected Works

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Complete Index of the Collected Works