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Donald Woods Winnicott

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The teacher, the parent and the doctor

[Meet to be] stolen from

The delinquent and habitual offender

Aggression in relation to emotional development, normal and pathological

7. Early stages: primary introduction to external reality. The meaning of relationship, direct and indirect access, reference to schizophrenia

8. Environmental needs at early stages. Total dependence and essential independence

The gwrw tree

The infancy of Juliet

Transitional objects & transitional phenomena

Symptom tolerance in paediatrics

Meta-psychological and clinical aspects of regression within the psycho-analytic set-up

The external nature of objects

Private [and clinical] practice

Varieties of clinical confusion

Neurosis in childhood

On the capacity to be alone

The effect of psychotic parents on the emotional development of the child

Aggression, guilt and reparation

The relationship of a mother to her baby at the very beginning

Varieties of psychotherapy

Psycho-analysis and science: friends or relations?

The psycho-analyst and child psychiatry: a matter of economics

Communicating and not communicating leading to a study of certain opposites

The Squiggle game

The price of disregarding psycho-analytic research findings

Do progressive schools give too much freedom to the child?

Untitled speech given at the Symposium on Cardiac Neurosis in Children

The child and the family

The absence of a sense of guilt

The bearing of environmental health on emotional development

Proposed preface for the Italian edition of Winnicott's book, The Family and Individual Development

The bearing of emotional development on feeding problems

The concept of a healthy individual

Contribution to Psyche dedicated to Dr Willi Hoffer's 70th birthday

The [a]etiology of infantile schizophrenia in terms of adaptive failure

The concept of clinical regression compared with that of defence organization

Trips into partisanship

Cultural experience: mirror image

The psychology of the adolescent

Communication between infant and mother, and mother and infant, compared and contrasted

Chards! Pil............. chards! Pil.............

Interpretation in psycho-analysis

A link between paediatrics and child psychology - clinical observations

Children learning

Changing patterns - the young person, the family and society / Death & murder in the adolescent process

Roots of aggression

Dependence in child care

Reflections on the monarchy

Preface to English translation of La Psychanalyse de L'Enfant, [by] Victor Smirnoff

Individuation

?Clinical notes, untitled: " A boy of 3 years was brought to hospital..."

Child psychiatry: The body as affected by psychological factors. Fragment of a paper, undated, incomplete article

Delinquency: continued

Fragments concerning the area of transitional phenomena

Mental Hygiene of the Pre-School Child (Hull, 25 Sep 1936)

Untitled: annotated with two possible titles - "Analysis of someone at PG [Paddington Green?] late 1930s-1940s"/"Knowing and Not Knowing: a clinical example"

A Doctor looks at the Psychiatric Social Worker

Treatmental of Mental Illness by Induction of Fits

Introduction to Symposium on The Psycho-Analytic Contribution to the theory of SHOCK THERAPY

Kinds of psychological effect of shock therapy

Enuresis: notes for paper to staff at Tavistock Clinic Children's Department, about 1949

Stealing and telling lies

"Yes, but how do we know it's true?"

The False Self. The True Self

Dependence and Independence - original title, deleted and Character types: the foolhardy and the cautious inserted [in DWW's own hand?]

Memorandum from Paddington Green Children's Hospital Psychology Department on Homosexuality and the Law

Regression and Reassurance

Letter to JPM Tizard with statement on Should a mother have her baby in hospital or at home?

Untitled, opening remarks on discussion about Balint's technique

Health Education through Broadcasting

Seminar - title added in ms "Hallucination & Dehallucination"

Coronary thrombosis: Society for Psychosomatic Diseases, University College London

Psychogenesis of a beating fantasy

Where Angels Fear to Tread, or a Comment on Generic Teaching

The Family: London School of Economics and Political Science course in Applied Social Studies 1958-9. A Clinical Approach to Family Problems

[MS annotation "Clinical Vignettes"]: Nothing at the Centre

Discussion on "Grief and Mourning in Infancy" by Dr John Bowlby

BBC: Security

Comments on Mr Joseph Sandler's paper: On the concept of superego [added in pencil: with reference to Freud and Klein]

Comment on Discussion on "Saying No"

Parents and Children: "The Ordinary Devoted Mother and her children" (BBC)

Paddington Green Children's Hospital (Psychology Department): Memorandum

Notes on the Time Factor in Treatment: preparation for a lecture given to the West Sussex Council Children's Department

Psychoneurosis in Childhood: Scandinavian Orthopsychiatric Congress, Helsinki, Findland, 8-10 Sep 1961

The Paediatric Department of Psychology

Comments on the Report of the Committee on Punishment in Prisons and Borstals [alternative title "Punishment" written in]

Parents and Children: "The First Five Years" (BBC)

The beginnings of a formulation of an appreciation and criticism of Klein's Envy statement

Untitled: begins "The study of homosexuality involves the following considerations"

DWW's Dream related to reviewing Jung

Fear of Breakdown: Davidson Clinic Edinburgh

The Concept of the False Self: Crime  - A Challenge, All Souls College Oxford

Deductions from a psychotherapeutic interview with an adolescent

IPA [International Psychoanalytical Association] Seminar, untitled [title added in pencil "The Importance of the setting with patients who regress"]

This Feminism

Introductory Lecture, New Light on Children's Thinking, Devon Centre for Further Education

The Price of Disregarding Psycho-Analytic Research Findings

The Concept of Trauma , two versions [ms addition on one copy "in relation to the development of the individual within the family]

Do Progressive Schools give too much Freedom to the Child? The Future for Progressive Education, Dartington Hall, 12-14 Apr 1965

The Psychology of Madness: A Contribution from Psycho-Analysis

Untitled report on case [pencilled in title: Case notes for a psycho-analytic seminar: withdrawal, regression, male identification]

The Ordinary Devoted Mother, The Nursery School Association - London Branch

Autism: A Paper prepared for the Society for Autistic Children, Leicester

The Unconscious

The Beginning of the Individual

Note on Mother-Foetus Relationship

Untitled: ms annotations "About Failure of the Analyst", "Pathological Guilt"

The ACPP Observed as a Group Phenomenon: President's Address, Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Delinquency as a Sign of Hope

The aetiology of infantile schizophrenia in terms of adaptive failure

The Imago Group - ms title added Playing and Culture ["to go with transitional object papers"]

Sleep Refusal in Children: Medical News

Untitled - title pencilled in The Effect of Loss on the Young

Breastfeeding as A Communication

The Use of an Object (in the context of Moses and Monotheism

Envy and Jealousy (Symposium): British Psycho-Analytical Society Scientific Meeting

Some Principles of Child Analysis

Development of the Theme of the Mother's Unconscious as Discovered in Psycho-Analytic Practice: First Draft for IJPA [International Journal of Psycho-Analysis] Special Number Vol 50

The Threat to Freedom

Berlin Walls

Additional Note on Psycho-Somatic Disorder

Untitled: handwritten title ACPP "Psychologists as a Group" [incomplete] [q.v. 1967]

"Human Relations": Physiotherapy

Chapter 10: The Parent's Response to the Helplessness of the Infant

Chapter for: Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytically Orientated Therapy, editor Peter L Giovacchini MD

Fragments belonging to the area of transitional phenomena. Written c.1969

The Split-Off Male and Female Elements to be found clinically in Men and Women: Clinical Inferences

ACPP [Association of Child Psychologists and Psychiatrists] Newcastle: pencilled-in title (possibly of conference rather than paper) Child Psychiatry, Social Work and Alternative Care

Talk to Doctors, St Luke's Church, Hatfield

Residential Care as Therapy, David Wills Lecture 1970

Basis for Self in Body

Clinical Examples

La crainte de l'effondrement

Creative Living in Marriage

The Day-Dreamer

(1) Definition of Creativity

Discussion on technique in analysis of psychotics

Freedom

Kohut Seminars May 22nd, June 5th and 19th, July 23rd: Notes from "The Maturational processes and the Facilitating Environment" and "Playing and Reality"

Background to War Aims Discussion

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