Winnicott's Babies and Winnicott's Patients

This book makes explicit the parallel in Winnicott's thinking between the situation of the baby and the 'nursing couple', and the patient and the 'analytic couple'. There are two helpful baby observation pieces which are aimed at first giving something of the experience of completing a baby observation and then of the reporting of it.

Margaret Boyle Spelman

Preface , Introduction , The root of Winnicott's thinking , Absolute dependence: the growth of a boundary , Relative dependence: the distance between , Towards independence-the whole person , A baby observation , Baby observation report , Conclusion