Reading Winnicott / edited by Lesley Caldwell and Angela Joyce.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The observation of infants in a set situation -- Primitive emotional development -- Hate in the countertransference -- Mind and its relation to the psyche-soma -- Transitional objects and transitional phenomena -- Metapsychological and clinical aspects of regression within the psychoanalytical set-up -- The theory of the parent-infant relationship -- The development of the capacity for concern -- Communicating and not communicating leading to a study of certain opposites -- Fear of breakdown -- A clinical study of the effect of a failure of the average expectable environment on a child's mental functioning -- Playing : a theoretical statement -- The use of an object and relating through identifications -- Creativity and its origins.