Face to Face with Children: The Life and Work of Clare Winnicott

by Joel Kanter

Overview

This book presents the life and work of one of the leading British social workers of the 20th century. The wife of Donald Winnicott, an analysand of Melanie Klein, a wartime innovator in helping evacuated children, a teacher and mentor to a generation of British social workers and a gifted psychoanalyst, Clare Winnicott's life encompassed a remarkable richness of relationships and accomplishments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855759978
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/24/2004
Pages:	332
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

About the Author

Joel Kanter has been a practicing social worker since completing his graduate education at Smith College School for Social Work in 1974. A graduate of the Advanced Psychotherapy Training Program at the Washington School of Psychiatry, he is currently a Senior Clinician with Fairfax County (Virginia) Mental Health Services and is in private practice in Silver Spring, Maryland. He has taught, lectured and written extensively on many topics involving the community treatment of mentally ill clients, including case management, family consultation and day treatment. His publications in these areas include Coping Strategies of Relatives of the Mentally Ill (NAMI, 1984), Clinical Issues in Treating the Chronic Mentally Ill (Jossey-Bass, 1985), Clinical Studies in Case Management (Jossey-Bass, 1995) and over twenty chapters and articles.

Jeremy Holmes is Visiting Professor, Psychoanalysis Unit University College London, and Honorary Consultant Psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic

Table of Contents

Preface — Foreword — Foreword — Clare Winnicott: her life and legacy — Oxfordshire — The problem of homeless children — Children who cannot play — Introduction to Deprivation and Delinquency — Child care in Oxfordshire: An interview with Alan Cohen — Working with Children — Casework techniques in the child care services — Face to face with children — Communicating with children—I — Communicating with children—II — Social Work — The “rescue motive” in social work — The development of insight — Development towards self-awareness — On D. W. Winnicott and Psychoanalysis — D.W.W.: A reflection — D. W. Winnicott: his life and work — Early observations on object relations theory — A personal tribute: Dr Lois Munro — Fear of breakdown: a clinical example — Published Works of Clare Winnicott

What People are Saying About This

Pearl King

"Joel Kanter has woven together so many diverse events, ideas, tasks, achievements that are all part of Clare’s life, and at the same time he has managed to depict the essential inter-relationship between Clare and Donald which kept the importance of playing and enjoying each other’s company as the context within which the struggles of their lives took place. I am grateful to him."

Jean Sanville

"Joel Kanter has edited for us mental health professionals a most important and timely book. Its focus is on the thinking and practice of Clare, whose original profession was social work, and the story of the mutual influences between her and Donald Winnicott, the medical analyst who became her husband. It is as though Clare and Donald began a dialogue that has grown in volume and intensity, and out of which both professions may broaden and deepen in knowledge and therapeutic competence."
—Ph.D., Training Analyst, Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies; Founding Dean, California Institute for Clinical Social Work

Dr Bob Holman

"[Clare Winnicott] showed that social workers who spent time with and who could relate with, play with, and talk with children could enable them to deal with their difficulties. Joel Kanter should be thanked for so carefully and clearly bringing Clare Winnicott back to the notice of the world of social work.
—Visiting Professor in Social Policy at the Universities of Glasgow and Swansea

Editorial Reviews

"[Clare Winnicott] showed that social workers who spent time with and who could relate with, play with, and talk with children could enable them to deal with their difficulties. Joel Kanter should be thanked for so carefully and clearly bringing Clare Winnicott back to the notice of the world of social work."

Dr Bob Holman

"Joel Kanter has edited for us mental health professionals a most important and timely book. Its focus is on the thinking and practice of Clare, whose original profession was social work, and the story of the mutual influences between her and Donald Winnicott, the medical analyst who became her husband. It is as though Clare and Donald began a dialogue that has grown in volume and intensity, and out of which both professions may broaden and deepen in knowledge and therapeutic competence."

Jean Sanville

"Joel Kanter has woven together so many diverse events, ideas, tasks, achievements that are all part of Clare’s life, and at the same time he has managed to depict the essential inter-relationship between Clare and Donald which kept the importance of playing and enjoying each other’s company as the context within which the struggles of their lives took place. I am grateful to him."

Pearl King

"Joel Kanter has woven together so many diverse events, ideas, tasks, achievements that are all part of Clare’s life, and at the same time he has managed to depict the essential inter-relationship between Clare and Donald which kept the importance of playing and enjoying each other’s company as the context within which the struggles of their lives took place. I am grateful to him."

"Joel Kanter has edited for us mental health professionals a most important and timely book. Its focus is on the thinking and practice of Clare, whose original profession was social work, and the story of the mutual influences between her and Donald Winnicott, the medical analyst who became her husband. It is as though Clare and Donald began a dialogue that has grown in volume and intensity, and out of which both professions may broaden and deepen in knowledge and therapeutic competence."

"[Clare Winnicott] showed that social workers who spent time with and who could relate with, play with, and talk with children could enable them to deal with their difficulties. Joel Kanter should be thanked for so carefully and clearly bringing Clare Winnicott back to the notice of the world of social work."

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