This book is not concerned with innovation in basic psychoanalytic concepts or techniques, but with the formulation and testing-out of ideas whose origin was in the challenge of day-to-day clinical work that was the staple of Winnocott's medical experience throughout his professional life.This book is arranged in three sections.

Preface -- Introduction -- A Note on Normality and Anxiety -- Fidgetiness -- Appetite and Emotional Disorder -- The Observation of Infants in a Set Situation -- Child Department Consultations -- Ocular Psychoneuroses of Childhood -- Reparation in Respect of Mother’s Organized Defence against Depression -- Anxiety Associated with Insecurity -- Symptom Tolerance in Paediatrics -- A Case Managed at Home -- The Manic Defence -- Primitive Emotional Development -- Paediatrics and Psychiatry -- Birth Memories, Birth Trauma, and Anxiety -- Hate in the Countertransference -- Aggression in Relation to Emotional Development -- Psychoses and Child Care -- Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena -- Mind and its Relation to the Psyche-Soma -- Withdrawal and Regression -- The Depressive Position in Normal Emotional Development -- Metapsychological and Clinical Aspects of Regression within the Psycho-Analytical Set-Up -- Clinical Varieties of Transference -- Primary Maternal Preoccupation -- The Antisocial Tendency -- Pædiatrics and Childhood Neurosis 1