description: In Something Short of Everything about D.W. Winnicott, author Judith Issroff - with whom Winnicott forged a collegial, affectionate, and playful bond during his last years - contributes significantly to our knowledge of the man and clinician. Drawing largely on what Winnicott himself wrote and said about others, and on how others perceived him, the book constructs a series of collage-like assemblages that offer a dazzling, kaleidoscopic picture of the eminent psychoanalyst and pediatrician. Immediately after Donald's death, Clare Britton-Winnicott entrusted Issroff with the initial editing of the core manuscript of The Primer of Psychoanalysis on Human Nature, on which Winnicott had been working for the preceding 17 years. At the time, Clare confided that she had destroyed his letters from his first wife, Alice. Suspecting that she may also have destroyed parts of his autobiography, and knowing that biographers have relied heavily on Clare's thoroughly edited selections from his notebooks, Issroff was curious to learn more about Alice. To this end, Issroff was directed to 'Susan, ' described in The Hands of the Living God, and three other people who had lived with the Winnicotts. Their testimony is presented alongside that acquired by F. Robert Rodman, in Winnicott: Life and Work, thus significantly augmenting our knowledge of a fascinating man and his world. Where Winnicottian scholarship is concerned, this book also makes a crucial contribution: examining Winnicott's documented dreams which are linked directly to the development of his thought and to an implicit metapsychology which Issroff propounds and explores. In so doing, the author helps realize Winnicott's own hope to see his work one day 'linked up' to other creative thinkers of the 20th century
language: English
title: Something Short of Everything about D.W. Winnicott
titlecomplete: Something Short of Everything about D.W. Winnicott
publisher: Free Association Books