MSc in Theoretical Psychoanalytic Studies

Winnicott Reading List
Autumn Term 2009
Coordinators - Ms Angela Joyce and Dr Lesley Caldwell

Aim: To provide a general introduction to the ideas of D.W Winnicott and to place his work in the psychoanalytic tradition.

Objectives: - To enable students to read and discuss some specific areas of Winnicott's contribution.

- To develop a critical understanding of the conceptual framework on which they depend.

- To identify their implications for practice and technique.

- To distinguish the work of Winnicott and his followers from other psychoanalytic thinkers.

Background Reading

D.W. Winnicott,1960, 'The Theory of the Infant-Parent Relationship', in International Journal of Psycho-Analysis , Vol.41, reprinted in The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment , Hogarth, 1965 / Karnac Books, 1990. Folder/PEP

D.W. Winnicott,1971, 'Playing: A Theoretical Statement', in Playing and Reality Folder

Adam Phillips, 1988 Winnicott Fontana Modern Masters

Seminar 1
Friday 30th October 2.15- 3.45pm
Ms Angela Joyce

Overview of the course

Infantile development

This seminar will introduce the themes of the course as a whole and begin to consider Winnicott's contriubution to psychoanalysis particularly the earliest infantile experience. Consideration will also be given to some of the historical and contemporary context of his ideas.

Essential Reading

D.W Winnicott, 1945 'Primitive Emotional Development', in Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis, Tavistock, 1958 FOLDER

D.W Winnicott, 1949 'The mind and its relation to Psyche Soma' in TPTP 1958

Supplementary Reading

D.W. Winnicott, 1956 ‘Primary Maternal Pre-occupation’, in TPTP, Tavistock, 1958.

Klein, M. “Our Adult World and its Roots in Infancy” in Envy and Gratitude and other Works 1946-1963. pp 247-263 Hogarth Press 1980

Ferenczi, S. (1913) ‘Stages in the Development of the Sense of Reality’, in First Contributions to Psychoanalysis, London: Hogarth (1952), pp. 219-39.

Seminar 2
Friday 6th November 2.15 -3.45pm
Dr Lesley Caldwell

Psychopathology: Its origins and impact in the therapeutic setting

Essential Reading

D. W. Winnicott (1947) ‘Hate in the Countertransference’, in TPTP pp194 -203. Tavistock, 1958

D. W. Winnicott (1964) ‘Classification: Is there a Psycho-Analytical Contribution to Psychiatric Classification?’, in Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment pp124-139. Karnac 1990

D.W Winnicott (1988) part II The emotional development of the human being chapters 1 Interpersonal Relationships & Chapter 2 The Concept of Health Using Instinct Theory and Part III chapter 3 Various Types of Psychotherapy Material, in Human Nature Free Association Books 1988

Seminar 3
Friday 20th November 2.15 -3.45pm
Ms Angela Joyce

Aggression

The third seminar will address Winnicott’s concepts of the roots of aggression and its development. In addition we will consider his ideas about the place of destructiveness in the developing infant`s experience of and discovery of the external object world. Implications for psychoanalytic technique will also be considered.

ESSENTIAL READING:

D.W. Winnicott (1964) 'Aggression and its Roots', in Deprivation and Delinquency , Tavistock, 1984, or The Child, the Family and the Outside World , Pelican, 1964 and subsequent ed. Folder

D.W. Winnicott (1968) 'The Use of an Object and Relating Through Identification', in Playing and Reality , Tavistock, 1971 or IJPA, Vol.50, 1969. Folder/PEP

SUPPLEMENTARY READING:

Winnicott, D.W (1960) "Ego Distortion in Terms of True and False Self", p140 152 and "Classification: a Psychoanalytic Contribution to Psychiatric Classification", 1959-64 The Maturational Processes and Facilitating Environment , Karnac Books, 1990 p124-139.

Winnicott, D.W. (1950) 'Aggression in relation to Emotional Development ' in Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis , Tavistock, 1958 pp 204- 218.

Seminar 4
Friday 27th November 2.15 -3.45pm
Dr Lesley Caldwell

Regression

This seminar will look at Winnicott’s views about regression as part of the analytic process.

ESSENTIAL READING:

DW Winnicott (1954) 'Withdrawal and Regression' in Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis, pp. 255-261.

DW Winnicott (1954) 'Metapsychological and Clinical aspects of Regression within the Psycho-analytical Set-Up' in Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis pp. 278-295.

SUPPLEMENTARY READING:

H Stewart (1992) Psychic Experience and problems of technique , chapters 7 & 8, pp.82-100 & 101-110.

R Rodman (2003) Winnicott Life and Work Perseus Publishing, Cambridge , MA Chapter 14 'Regression: 1953-54' pp183 -202.

Seminar 5
Friday 4th December 2.15-3.45pm
Ms Angela Joyce

The transitional object and transitional space

This seminar will consider Winnicott’s concepts of the transitional object and transitional phenomena and especially the link with the development of separateness

ESSENTIAL READING:

D.W. Winnicott, (1951) 'Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena', in Collected Papers, or Playing and Reality , or IJPA, Vol.34, 1953. Folder/PEP

SUPPLEMENTARY READING:

D.W. Winnicott, ‘The Use of an Object and Relating Through Identification’, 1968, in Playing and Reality, Tavistock, 1971 or IJPA, Vol.50, 1969. FOLDER

Seminar 6
Saturday 5th December 9.30-11.00AM
Dr Lesley Caldwell

Culture and Illusion

This seminar will discuss the wider implications of transitionality, Winnicott’s use of the idea of “illusion” and the differences in theoretical approach from Wulff ‘s 1946 paper.

S Deri 1978 transitional Phenomena: Vicissitudes of Symbolization and Creativity

In Grolnick S & Barkin L( editors) Between Reality and Fantasy Jason Aronson, USA pages 43-61.

In Grolnick S & Barkin L( editors) Between Reality and Fantasy Jason Aronson, USA pages 43-61.

D.W. Winnicott The Location of Cultural Experience’ in Playing and Reality p95.

Turner, J. 2002 ‘Illusion in the work of Winnicott’, IJP 83,5, 1051-1062.

Usuelli Kluzer, A, 1992 ‘The significance of illusion in the work of Freud and Winnicott: A Controversial Issue’, International Review of Psychoanalysis, 19:179-187.

Wulff 1946 ‘Fetishism and Object Choice in Early Childhood’, Psychoanal.Quart., 15, p450

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