The starting point for this book is the Winnicott paper 'Ego distortion in terms of True and False Self' which is reprinted here. The contributors include: Frances Tustin on autism; Ken Wright on personal selfhood; Nina Coltart with insights from philosophy and Buddhism; and Katherine Cameron on Winnicott and Lacan.

This is the second monograph to be published under the auspices of Winnicott Studies, the Squiggle Foundation's renowned series of publications on contemporary applications of Winnicott's thought. Like its predecessor, which concentrated on the True and False Self, this volume focuses on a single topic: Winnicott's treatment of fathers.The volume includes a reprint of Winnicott's 1965 paper, A child psychiatry case illustrating delayed reaction to loss, which is followed by John Forrester's On holding as a metaphor, which expands and comments on many of the issues which Winnicott raises. John...

-At the time of beginning my own therapy, I was teaching drama and theatre studies and became fascinated by the analogies between theatre and therapy, especially by how these set-apart space/times affect the behaviour of meaning-making and the seeming immensity of the therapist's power.'
'... as a trainee psychotherapist, discovering the writings of Winnicott, I realised that his theory of transitional phenomena and his vision of -playing- ... provided a theoretical underpinning to the bond between theatre and therapy, bringing together the three parts of this book.- --From the...

This book is a complete guide to the primary-secondary transition, with chapters covering management of physical, intellectual, social and emotional changes, issues of changing self-identity and the continuity of pedagogy and curriculum in the teaching of maths and science.