Product Overview
Jan Abrams lexicon - The Language of Winnicott - has proved to be the definitive comprehensive guide to Winnicotts thought since it was first published in 1996, Winnicotts Centenary Year. The twenty-two entries represent the major conceptualizations in Winnicotts theories and take the reader on a journey through his writings that span from 1931 71. Thus the volume is an anthology of the entirety of Winnicotts writings.
This new edition, with a new bibliography by Knud Hjulmud, expands on each original entry predicated on Abrams research discoveries, including archival material, over the past decade.
Thomas Ogden introduces Abrams dictionary by emphasising the experience of reading Winnicotts words. Abrams accomplishment, he writes, is comparable to the Oxford English Dictionary which offers the reader the history of the way a word or term has been used and how that usage has changed and is in the process of further change. The hall mark of The Language of Winnicott is that it demonstrates how Winnicotts use of words creates a version of psychoanalysis that is a very living thing.
Knud Hjulmand has been working on creating a definitive Winnicott bibliography. For the first time this new edition of The Language of Winnicott will include the most recently revised, chronological and alphabetical, bibliography of all the published works of D.W.Winnicott.
