Series: The Winnicott Studies Monograph Series

Winnicott and sex are two subjects that are rarely associated with one another. Sexuality is not a prominent theme within the work of Winnicott, who preferred to concentrate on the development of the self from infancy. However, his writings contain unexplored insights into sexuality, and it is these hidden insights that prompted Lesley Caldwell to invite papers from leading analysts...

Fuelled by agitation and panic about paedophilia, child abuse, violence and neglect on the one side, and by children as violent murderers and killers on the other, there has been an explosion of concern regarding the place, care, treatment and life of Children, in Europe and beyond. Psychoanalysis recognition of the continuing importance of childhood and the child, and its...