Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Winnicott and his clinical work; References; Chapter 1 Therapeutic consultation; Paddington Green Children's Hospital; The testimony of Joyce McDougall; An overture, in the musical sense; Using the environment; Notes; References; Chapter 2 The squiggle; The process is more important than the technique; The sacred moment; The squiggle as a signature; Notes; References; Chapter 3 The father; The father as third person; The mother-environment; The indestructible environment
Chapter 7 AdolescenceImmaturity and the doldrums; An adolescent at the moment of adolescence; The "time for adolescence" and the "crisis of adolescence"; New wine into goat skin bottles; The adolescent is an isolate; Adolescence and delinquency; Notes; References; Chapter 8 Regression; Regression according to Winnicott; Frame, setting and holding; The reliability of the analyst; Silence and regression; Withdrawal and regression; References; Chapter 9 The area of playing in the cure; The ethic of reserve; Creating an emotional bridge; Notes; References; Index
The father, a complete personNotes; References; Chapter 4 The family; The family, a singular place; Loyalty and disloyalty; Within the sibling group; Notes; References; Chapter 5 Antisocial tendency and deprivation; Antisocial behaviour and deprivation; Recuperating an adequate environment; Treatment by regression; The case of evacuated children; Delinquency, a sign of hope; Note; References; Chapter 6 Aggression and destructiveness; Primary instinctive motricity; Positive destructiveness; Pathological destruction; Freud, Melanie Klein and the death instinct; Hate; Notes; References