Spontaneous Gesture
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This volume consists of the collected letters of D. W. Winnicott, a central figure in British psychoanalysis in the generation following Freud. Suspicious of dogma and deeply committed to the value of his own observations, he maintained a highly personal therapeutic and theoretical style. His common sense, humour, warmth, and individualism made him
F. Robert Rodman M.D., practices psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, he is a member of the Centre for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies, Princeton, New Jersey, and the author of 'Not Dying: A Memoir' and 'Keeping Hope Alive: On Becoming a Psychotherapist'. Donald Winnicott (1896-1971) was trained in paediatrics, a profession that he practiced to the end of his life, in particular at the Paddington Green Children's Hospital. He began analysis with James Strachey in 1923, became a member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society in 1935, and twice served as its President. He was also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and of the British Psychological Society.