- Frontispiece
- Editors’ Note
- Introduction to Volume 5
- 1 Letter to Roger Money-Kyrle
- 2 On Adoption
- 3 Letter to Thomas Stapleton
- 4 Memorandum from Paddington Green Children’s Hospital Psychology Department on Homosexuality and the Law
- 5 Letter to Emilio Rodrigue
- 6 Letter to Roger Money-Kyrle
- 7 Private Practice
- 8 Letter to Charles Rycroft
- 9 Group Influences and the Maladjusted Child
- 10 For Stepparents
- 11 Clinical Varieties of Transference
- 12 Adopted Children in Adolescence
- 13 Letter to the British Medical Journal, Comforters
- 14 Letter to Michael Fordham
- 15 Letter to Hanna Segal
- 16 Letter to Wilfred R. Bion
- 17 Letter to Anna Freud
- 18 A Case Managed at Home
- 19 Foreword to Any Wife, Any Husband by Dr Joan Graham
- 20 First Experiments in Independence
- 21 A Note on Regression and Reassurance
- 22 Letter to Charles M. Schulz
- 23 The Toddler, the Second Adoption, Telling Children About Adoption
- 1 What Do We Know About Babies as Cloth Suckers?
- 2 Letter to the British Medical Journal, Prefrontal Leucotomy
- 3 Letter to Joan Riviere
- 4 Fragments Concerning Varieties of Clinical Confusion
- 5 On ‘A Study of Envy and Gratitude’ by Melanie Klein
- 6 Letter to Enid Balint
- 7 Psycho-Analysis and the Sense of Guilt
- 8 The Antisocial Tendency
- 9 Letter to Gabriel Casuso
- 10 Letter to Oliver H. Lowry
- 11 Paediatrics and Childhood Neurosis
- 12 Letter to Charles Rycroft
- 13 Letter to Charles Rycroft
- 14 Letter to J. Peter M. Tizard
- 15 Letter to Barbara Lantos
- 16 Primary Maternal Preoccupation
- 17 Notes on Adolescence
- 1 Letter to Anna M. Kulka
- 2 Letter to Charles Rycroft
- 3 Letter to Thomas Main
- 4 Address Introducing Margaret Mead, VIIIth Ernest Jones Lecture
- 5 Letter to Margaret Mead
- 6 Letter to Thomas Main
- 7 Letter to Melanie Klein
- 8 Remarks on a Discussion of Balint’s Paper on Technique
- 9 Letter to Michael Balint
- 10 Letter to Michael Balint
- 11 Letter to Tsuicheu Cheu
- 12 Letter to The Times
- 13 Letter to Martin James
- 14 Review: Six Children
- 15 The Contribution of Psycho-Analysis to Midwifery
- 16 Letter to Mary Applebey
- 17 Foreword to The Case as the Patient Sees It: Psychoanalysis
- 18 Letter to Joan Riviere
- 19 Letter to Prunella Briance
- 20 The Capacity to Be Alone
- 21 On the Contribution of Direct Child Observation to Psycho-Analysis
- 22 Letter to Augusta Bonnard
- 23 Hallucination and Dehallucination
- 24 Letter to Michael Balint
- 25 Letter to Francesca Bion
- 26 Integrative and Disruptive Factors in Family Life
- 27 Advising Parents
- 28 Letter to Augusta Bonnard
- 29 Excitement in the Aetiology of Coronary Thrombosis
- 30 The Mother’s Contribution to Society
- 31 Health Education Through Broadcasting
- 32 Preface to Collected Papers: Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis
- 1 Letter to Grantly Dick-Read
- 2 Letter to Marianne Baumann
- 3 Funeral Address for Ernest Jones
- 4 Psychogenesis of a Beating Fantasy
- 5 Review: The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, Volume 11
- 6 The First Year of Life
- 7 The Psychology of Separation
- 8 Letter to Anna Freud
- 9 Where Angels Fear to Tread, Or A Comment on Generic Teaching
- 10 Letter to Marianne Baumann
- 11 Letter to Anna Freud
- 12 Letter to Joan Riviere
- 13 Child Analysis in the Latency Period
- 14 Letter to R. D. Laing
- 15 Review: The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, Volume 12
- 16 Letter to Herbert Rosenfeld
- 17 The Family Affected by Depressive Illness in One or Both Parents
- 18 On ‘Separation Anxiety’
- 19 Letter to Anna Freud
- 20 Letter to Victor Smirnoff
- 21 Obituary: Ernest Jones
- 22 Obituary: Dr Ambrose Cyril Wilson
- 23 Review: The Doctor, His Patient and the Illness
- 24 Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena
- 25 Theoretical Statement of the Field of Child Psychiatry
- 1 Review: Envy and Gratitude
- 2 Letter to Reginald Lightwood
- 3 Letter to Miss Maw
- 4 Memorandum on Gisburne House
- 5 Classification: Is There a Psycho-Analytic Contribution to Psychiatric Classification?
- 6 Letter to The Times
- 7 Letter to Donald Meltzer
- 8 Letter to Kenneth Soddy
- 9 Letter to Paul Halmos
- 10 Nothing at the Centre
- 11 Letter to Dorothy E. M. Gardner
- 12 Letter to Arthur J. Metcalfe
- 13 Letter to Herman Gijsbert van der Waals
- 14 Letter to A. Tommy M. Wilson
- 15 Casework with Mentally Ill Children
- 16 Letter to Elliot Jaques
- 17 Discussion of ‘Grief and Mourning in Infancy’
- 18 Letter to Paula Heimann
- 19 Letter to Thomas Szasz
- 20 Counter-Transference
- 21 The Effect of Psychotic Parents on the Emotional Development of the Child
- 22 The Fate of the Transitional Object
- 23 Review: Going to Hospital with Mother
- 24 Foreword to Childbirth with Confidence
- 25 Obituary: Oscar Friedmann
- 26 Clinical Material on the Theme of a Male Patient’s Exploitation of His Female Self
- 27 A Clinical Approach to Family Problems
- Chronology
- References
- Contributors
- Credits
- Index
(p. 79) Letter to Michael Fordham
- Chapter:
- (p. 79) Letter to Michael Fordham
- Author(s):
Donald W. Winnicott
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med:psych/9780190271374.003.0014
A letter from Winnicott to Michael Fordham asking him to answer his point that the environment must have a theoretical start of absolute adaptation. He asks Fordham to clarify his use of the terms ‘self’, ‘ego’, ‘conscious’ and ‘self-conscious’.
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- Frontispiece
- Editors’ Note
- Introduction to Volume 5
- 1 Letter to Roger Money-Kyrle
- 2 On Adoption
- 3 Letter to Thomas Stapleton
- 4 Memorandum from Paddington Green Children’s Hospital Psychology Department on Homosexuality and the Law
- 5 Letter to Emilio Rodrigue
- 6 Letter to Roger Money-Kyrle
- 7 Private Practice
- 8 Letter to Charles Rycroft
- 9 Group Influences and the Maladjusted Child
- 10 For Stepparents
- 11 Clinical Varieties of Transference
- 12 Adopted Children in Adolescence
- 13 Letter to the British Medical Journal, Comforters
- 14 Letter to Michael Fordham
- 15 Letter to Hanna Segal
- 16 Letter to Wilfred R. Bion
- 17 Letter to Anna Freud
- 18 A Case Managed at Home
- 19 Foreword to Any Wife, Any Husband by Dr Joan Graham
- 20 First Experiments in Independence
- 21 A Note on Regression and Reassurance
- 22 Letter to Charles M. Schulz
- 23 The Toddler, the Second Adoption, Telling Children About Adoption
- 1 What Do We Know About Babies as Cloth Suckers?
- 2 Letter to the British Medical Journal, Prefrontal Leucotomy
- 3 Letter to Joan Riviere
- 4 Fragments Concerning Varieties of Clinical Confusion
- 5 On ‘A Study of Envy and Gratitude’ by Melanie Klein
- 6 Letter to Enid Balint
- 7 Psycho-Analysis and the Sense of Guilt
- 8 The Antisocial Tendency
- 9 Letter to Gabriel Casuso
- 10 Letter to Oliver H. Lowry
- 11 Paediatrics and Childhood Neurosis
- 12 Letter to Charles Rycroft
- 13 Letter to Charles Rycroft
- 14 Letter to J. Peter M. Tizard
- 15 Letter to Barbara Lantos
- 16 Primary Maternal Preoccupation
- 17 Notes on Adolescence
- 1 Letter to Anna M. Kulka
- 2 Letter to Charles Rycroft
- 3 Letter to Thomas Main
- 4 Address Introducing Margaret Mead, VIIIth Ernest Jones Lecture
- 5 Letter to Margaret Mead
- 6 Letter to Thomas Main
- 7 Letter to Melanie Klein
- 8 Remarks on a Discussion of Balint’s Paper on Technique
- 9 Letter to Michael Balint
- 10 Letter to Michael Balint
- 11 Letter to Tsuicheu Cheu
- 12 Letter to The Times
- 13 Letter to Martin James
- 14 Review: Six Children
- 15 The Contribution of Psycho-Analysis to Midwifery
- 16 Letter to Mary Applebey
- 17 Foreword to The Case as the Patient Sees It: Psychoanalysis
- 18 Letter to Joan Riviere
- 19 Letter to Prunella Briance
- 20 The Capacity to Be Alone
- 21 On the Contribution of Direct Child Observation to Psycho-Analysis
- 22 Letter to Augusta Bonnard
- 23 Hallucination and Dehallucination
- 24 Letter to Michael Balint
- 25 Letter to Francesca Bion
- 26 Integrative and Disruptive Factors in Family Life
- 27 Advising Parents
- 28 Letter to Augusta Bonnard
- 29 Excitement in the Aetiology of Coronary Thrombosis
- 30 The Mother’s Contribution to Society
- 31 Health Education Through Broadcasting
- 32 Preface to Collected Papers: Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis
- 1 Letter to Grantly Dick-Read
- 2 Letter to Marianne Baumann
- 3 Funeral Address for Ernest Jones
- 4 Psychogenesis of a Beating Fantasy
- 5 Review: The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, Volume 11
- 6 The First Year of Life
- 7 The Psychology of Separation
- 8 Letter to Anna Freud
- 9 Where Angels Fear to Tread, Or A Comment on Generic Teaching
- 10 Letter to Marianne Baumann
- 11 Letter to Anna Freud
- 12 Letter to Joan Riviere
- 13 Child Analysis in the Latency Period
- 14 Letter to R. D. Laing
- 15 Review: The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, Volume 12
- 16 Letter to Herbert Rosenfeld
- 17 The Family Affected by Depressive Illness in One or Both Parents
- 18 On ‘Separation Anxiety’
- 19 Letter to Anna Freud
- 20 Letter to Victor Smirnoff
- 21 Obituary: Ernest Jones
- 22 Obituary: Dr Ambrose Cyril Wilson
- 23 Review: The Doctor, His Patient and the Illness
- 24 Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena
- 25 Theoretical Statement of the Field of Child Psychiatry
- 1 Review: Envy and Gratitude
- 2 Letter to Reginald Lightwood
- 3 Letter to Miss Maw
- 4 Memorandum on Gisburne House
- 5 Classification: Is There a Psycho-Analytic Contribution to Psychiatric Classification?
- 6 Letter to The Times
- 7 Letter to Donald Meltzer
- 8 Letter to Kenneth Soddy
- 9 Letter to Paul Halmos
- 10 Nothing at the Centre
- 11 Letter to Dorothy E. M. Gardner
- 12 Letter to Arthur J. Metcalfe
- 13 Letter to Herman Gijsbert van der Waals
- 14 Letter to A. Tommy M. Wilson
- 15 Casework with Mentally Ill Children
- 16 Letter to Elliot Jaques
- 17 Discussion of ‘Grief and Mourning in Infancy’
- 18 Letter to Paula Heimann
- 19 Letter to Thomas Szasz
- 20 Counter-Transference
- 21 The Effect of Psychotic Parents on the Emotional Development of the Child
- 22 The Fate of the Transitional Object
- 23 Review: Going to Hospital with Mother
- 24 Foreword to Childbirth with Confidence
- 25 Obituary: Oscar Friedmann
- 26 Clinical Material on the Theme of a Male Patient’s Exploitation of His Female Self
- 27 A Clinical Approach to Family Problems
- Chronology
- References
- Contributors
- Credits
- Index