DONALD WINNICOTT SEMINAR
SEMINAR OUTLINE
The seminar focuses on Donald Winnicott’s main contributions to psychoanalytic theory and psychotherapeutic practice in his work with children, adolescents, adults, and parents. The seminar will also include works of authors who had further developed Winnicott’s original ideas and concepts.
The seminar consists of 20 individual sessions spread over two school years. Each school year will present a series of 10 sessions held once a week for the duration of 80 minutes.
Seminar participants must fulfil the requirements as stated in the General Requirements.
SEMINAR LEADERS
Dr Biljana Pirgić is a Child Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst of the Belgrade Psychoanalytical Society and child and adolescent psychotherapist. She works in private practice since 2009. Prior to this she worked at Mental Health Institute, Belgrade and Clinical Hospital Center Dr Dragiša Mišović, Belgrade. She is a member of International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), of Society for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy of Serbia (UDAPS), and of European Psychoanalytical Federation (EPF). She is a Member of Centre for Psychoanalysis: Clinic & Theory, Belgrade, and is one of the editors of Dovoljno dobro roditeljstvo (Good Enough Parenting, Narodna knjiga, 2006).
Dr Brankica Aćimović is a Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst of the Belgrade Psychoanalytical Society. She is a member of International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). Prior to her private psychoanalytical practice, she worked for many years as a psychiatrist at the Institute of Psychiatry at University Clinical Centre of Serbia. She is a Member of Centre for Psychoanalysis: Clinic & Theory, Belgrade, and is one of the editors of Dovoljno dobro roditeljstvo (Good Enough Parenting, Narodna knjiga, 2006).
SEMINARS AND READING LIST
YEAR ONE
1. Absolute Dependence Phase
Primary Maternal Preoccupation, 1956, in: Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis, London:Tavistock 1958, 300-305
The Mirror-Role of Mother and Family in Child Development, 1967, in: Playing and Reality, London: Tavistock 1971, 111-118
2. Transitional Objects and Phenomena 1
Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena, 1953, in Playing and Reality, London: Tavistock 1971, 1-25
The Fate of The Transitional Object, 1959, in Psychoanalytic Explorations, 1989, London: Karnac 1989, 53-58
3. Transitional Objects and Phenomena 2
The Location of Cultural Experience, 1967, in Playing and Reality, London: Tavistock 1971, 95-103
Addendum to: “The Location of Cultural Experience”, 1967, in Psychoanalytic Explorations, London: Karnac 1989, 200-202
Playing and Culture, 1968, in Psychoanalytic Explorations, London: Karnac, 1989, 203-206
4. True and False Self
Ego Distortion in Terms of True and False Self, 1960, in: The Maturational Processes and The Facilitating Environment, chapter 12, London: Hogarth Press, 1965, 140-152
Reparation in Respect of Mother’s Organized Defence against Depression. 1948, in Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis, London: Tavistock 1958, 91-96
5. The Use of an Object
The Use of an Object and Relations through Identification, 1969, in Playing and Reality, London: Tavistock, 1971, 86-94
Clinical Illustration of “The Use of an Object”, 1968, in Psychoanalytic Explorations, London: Karnac 1989, 235-237
6. Aggression Phase in Early Emotional Development
Aggression in Relation to Emotional Development, 1950-55, in Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis, London: Tavistock 1958, 204-218
7. Early Development Processes 1
Primitive Emotional Development, 1945, in Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis, London: Tavistock 1958, 145-156
8. Early Development Processes 2
The Theory of the Parent-Infant Relationship 1960, in The Maturational Processes and The Facilitating Environment, London: Hogarth Press 1965, 37-55
From Dependency towards Independence in the Development of the Individual, 1963, in The Maturational Processes and The Facilitating Environment, London: Hogarth Press 1965, 83-92
9. The Development of the Capacity for Concern 1
Depressive Position in Normal Emotional Development, 1954-55, in Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis, London: Tavistock 1958, 262-276
10. The Development of the Capacity for Concern 2
The Development of the Capacity for Concern, 1963, in The Maturational Processes and The Facilitating Environment, London: Hogarth Press 1965, 73-81
The Capacity to be Alone, 1958, in The Maturational Processes and The Facilitating Environment, London : Hogarth Press 1965, 29-36
YEAR TWO
11. Early Anxieties
Fear of Breakdown, 1963, in Psychoanalytic Explorations, London: Karnac 1969, 87-95
12. Countertransference
Hate in the Countertransference, 1947, in Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis, London:Tavistock 1958, 194-203.
13. Variants of Mind Development
Mind And Its Relation To The Psyche-soma, 1949, in Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis, London:Tavistock 1958, 243-254
Communicating And Not Communicating Leading to a Study of Certain Opposites, 1963, in: The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment, London: Hogarth Press 1965, 179-183
14. Ideas on Creativity
Creativity And Its Origins, 1971, in Playing and Reality, London: Tavistock, 1971, 65-85
15. Regression
Methapsychological and Clinical Aspect of Regression Within the Psychoanalytical Setting, 1954, in Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis, London: Tavistock 1958, 278-299
16. Antisocial Tendencies
Antisocial Tendency 1956, in Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis, London: Tavistock 1958, 306-315
Delinquency as a Sign of Hope 1967, in Home is Where We Start From, New York: Norton & Company 1986, 90-100
Moral and Education 1963, in Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment London: Hogarth Press 1965, 93-105
17. Contributions of Other Authors 1
Ken Wright, Looking After the Self, in The Person Who is Me, Conteporary Perspective on the True and False Self, London: Karnac 1996, 65-83
18. Contributions of Other Authors 2
Masud R. Khan, The Concept of Cumulative Trauma 1963, in The Privacy of the Self, London: Karnac 1996, 42-58
19. Contributions of Other Authors 3
Thomas H. Ogden, On Potential Space, in Tactics and Techniques in Psychoanalytic Therapy, Vol III: The Implications of Winnicott’s Contributions, edited by Peter. L. Giovacchini, Jason Aronson Inc 1990, 90-112 (Winnicott Tradition 2019)
20. Contributions of Other Authors 4
Arnold H. Modell, The Patient’s Use Of the Therapist, in Other Times, Other Realities, Harvard University Press 1990, 115-126
Cristopher Bollas, A Theory for the True Self, in: Winnicott and the Psychoanalytic Tradition, Edited by Lesley Caldwell, Routledge 2018, 8-23
RECOMMENDED ADDITIONAL READING
Editions containing works by D.W.W.
Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis, Tavistock, 1958.
The Maturational Processes and The Facilitating Environment, The Hogarth Press, 1965.
Psychoanalytic Explorations, Karnac, 1969
Playing and Reality, Penguin, 1971
Human Nature, Free Association Books, 1988
Books on D.W.W.
F. Robert Rodman, WINNICOTT, life and work, A Merloyd Lawrence book, 2003
Brett Kahr, D.W. WINNNICOT, a biographical portrait, Karnac books, 1996
The SPONTANEOUS GESTURE, selected letters of D.W.Winnicott, edited by F. Robert Rodman, Karnac books, 1987
Articles
D.W.W Classification: Is There a Psychoanalytic Contribution to Psychiatric Classification? 1959-1964, in Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment, London: Hogarth Press 1965, 124-139
D.W.W The Value of the Therapeutic Consultation 1965, in: Psychoanalytic Explorations, London: Karnac, 1969, 318-324
D.W.W The Observation of Infants in a Set Situation, 1941, in: Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis, London: Tavistock 1958, 52-69.
D.W.W On the Contribution of Direct Child Observation to Psychoanalysis, 1957, in: The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment, London: Hogarth Press 1965, 109-114
D.W.W The Place where we Live, in Playing and Reality, London: Tavistock 1971, 104-110
D.W.W Aggression and Its Roots 1939,1964, in Deprivation and Delinquency, London: Tavistock 1984, 84-99
D.W.W Psycho-Analysis and Sense of Guilt 1958, in: Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment, London: Hogarth Press 1965, 15-28
D.W.W Clinical Varieties of Transference, 1955-56, in Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis, London: Tavistock 1958, 295-299
D.W.W Playing: A Theoretical Statement, in: Playing and Reality, London: Tavistock, 1971, 38-52
D.W.W Interpretation in Psycho-Analysis, 1968, in: Psychoanalytic Explorations, London: Karnac 1969, 207-213
Peter L. Giovacchini, Interpretation, an Obscure Technical Area: Comments on Winnicott’s “Interpretation in Psycho-Analysis” in Tactics and Techniques in psychoanalytic Therapy, Vol III: The Implications of Winnicott’s Contributions, edited by Peter. L. Giovacchini, Jason Aronson Inc 1990, 71-89
Gerald Adler, Transitional phenomena, Projective Identification, and the Essential ambiguity of the psychoanalytic situation, in: Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 1989 (58), 81-104
Arnold H. Modell, ’The holding environment’ and the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis, in: JAPA 1978 (24). 285-308
Ken Robinson, Creativity in Everyday life ( or Living in the World Creatively) in Donald W. Winnicott and History of the Present, Edited by Angela Joyce, Routledge 2018, 77-90
Patrick Casement, Analytic Holding under Pressure in : On Learning from the Patient, London: Tavistock 1985, 155-167 .
Ken Wright, The Little Matter of the Discrepant Fact, unpublished paper
Andre Green, The intuition of the negative in Playing and Reality in Andre Green at the Squiggle Foundation, edited by Jan Abram, Karnac, 2000
Joyce McDougall, Donald Winnicot the Man: Reflection and Recollections in: Donald Winnicott the Man, Karnac, 2002
Helen Taylor Robinson, Adult eros in D. W. Winnicott in: Sex and Sexuality Winnicottian Perspectives, edetet by Lesley Caldwell, Karnac, 2005