This book highlights some of Donald Winnicott's contributions that particularly illustrate the originality of his thought. It focuses on some of his indirect as well as direct contributions to psychoanalytic technique.

Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Overtures to Winnicott -- D. W. Winnicott: the transitional thinker -- A meeting with Donald Winnicott in 1965 -- Mothers and Infants -- The personality of the foetus -- Mother–infant psychotherapy: a classification of eleven psychoanalytic treatment strategies -- The wider applications of infant observation -- Children and Adolescents -- From baby games to let’s pretend: the achievement of playing -- Psychoanalytic perspectives on traumatized children: the Armenia experience -- On losing your marble -- The false self and the false body -- Reminiscences of Winnicott -- Memories of Donald Winnicott -- My experience of Winnicott -- D. W. Winnicott -- Winnicottiana: some hitherto unpublished documents