Winnicott’s Children: Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches With Children and Adolescents

236 Pages·2013·21.8 MB·English

by  Ann Horne

Winnicott’s Children
Winnicott’s Children focuses on the use we make of the thinking and writing of
D. W. Winnicott; how this has enhanced our understanding of children and the
settings where we work, and how it has infl uenced the way in which we do that
work. It is a volume by clinicians, concerned with how, as well as why, we engage
with particular children in particular ways.
The book begins with a scholarly and accessible exposition of the place of
Winnicott in his time, in relation to his contemporaries – Melanie Klein, Anna
Freud, John Bowlby – and the development of his thinking. The dual focus on the
earliest experience of the infant and its consequences plus the ‘how’ of engaging
with children – as good- enough mothers or good- enough therapists – is picked up
in the chapters that follow. The role of play is central to a chapter on supervision;
struggling through the doldrums can be part of the adolescent’s experience and
that of those who engage with him; the role of psychotherapy in a Winnicottian
therapeutic community and an inner city secondary school is explored; and a
chapter on radio work links us personally with Winnicott and his desire to talk
plainly and helpfully to parents.
There is a richness in the collection of subjects in this book, and in the experi-
ence of the writers. It will appeal to those who work with children – in child and
family mental health settings, schools, hospitals, colleges and social care settings.
Ann Horne trained in the Independent tradition at the BAP, where she was Head
of Training and of Post- graduate Development for Child Psychotherapists. Now
retired from clinical work, she still teaches, writes and talks, and retains a partic-
ular interest in children who cannot access thought and refl ection but instead act.
Monica Lanyado is a training supervisor at the British Association of
Psychotherapists. She is co-e ditor with Ann Horne of T he Handbook of Child and
Adolescent Psychotherapy and A Question of Technique, and author of T he
Presence of the Therapist .
Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children
and Adolescents series
Series Editors: Ann Horne and Monica Lanyado
Titles in the series
A Question of Technique
Edited by Monica Lanyado and Ann Horne
Through Assessment to Consultation
Edited by Ann Horne and Monica Lanyado
Winnicott’s Children
Independent psychoanalytic
approaches with children and
adolescents
Edited by Ann Horne and
Monica Lanyado
First published 2012
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Winnicott’s children : independent psychoanalytic approaches with
children and adolescents/[edited by] Ann Horne and Monica Lanyado.
p. cm.—(Independent psychoanalytic approaches)
ISBN 978–0–415–67291–7 (pbk.)—ISBN 978–0–415–67290–0
(hardback) 1. Child analysis. 2. Adolescent analysis. 3. Child
psychotherapy. 4. Adolescent psychotherapy. I. Horne, Ann,
1944– II. Lanyado, Monica. 1949–
RJ504.2.W55 2012
618.92'8914—dc23
2012019911
ISBN: 978–0–415–67290–0 (hbk)
ISBN: 978–0–415–67291–7 (pbk)
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For Rosalie Joffé
who both taught and embodies the best of Winnicott
with the greatest affection

Contents
Contributors ix
Acknowledgements xiii
Foreword xiv
HELEN TAYLOR ROBINSON
Prologue: On reading Winnicott xx
ADAM PHILLIPS
Introduction xxiii
ANN HORNE AND MONICA LANYADO
1 Winnicott in his time 1
L ESLEY CALDWELL AND ANGELA JOYCE
PART I
Concepts 23
2 What is therapeutic about communication? 25
MONICA LANYADO
3 A joy to be hidden, a disaster not to be found 41
JULIE KITCHENER
4 Refl ections on mirrors 60
ANITA COLLOMS
5 Hate in the counter- transference: Winnicott’s contribution
to our understanding of hatred in our work as child
psychotherapists 77
DEIRDRE DOWLING
viii Contents
6 Body and soul: Developmental urgency and impasse 88
ANN HORNE
PART II
Transitional themes 103
7 On psychoanalytic supervision: Avoiding omniscience,
encouraging play 105
MANI VASTARDIS AND GAIL PHILLIPS
8 Transition and change: An exploration of the resonances
between transitional and meditative states of mind and
their roles in the meditative process 123
MONICA LANYADO
PART III
The outside world 141
9 Spaces for growth: Where milieu therapy and
psychotherapy meet 143
CARYN ONIONS AND JENNIFER BROWNER
10 A Word In Your Ear: Winnicott on the radio 157
RACHEL MELVILLE- THOMAS
11 The adolescent, the therapist and the school environment 171
LUCY ALEXANDER
12 On delinquency 186
ANN HORNE
Index 203
Contributors
Lucy Alexander trained as a child and adolescent psychotherapist at the British
Association of Psychotherapists (BAP). She currently works at Islington
Community CAMHS and in private practice, and also teaches on the Child
Psychotherapy training at the BAP. She has run several outreach projects at
primary and secondary schools and has a particular interest in the application
of psychoanalytic ideas in non-c linical settings. Before training as a psycho-
therapist she was a journalist.
Jennifer Browner trained as a child and adolescent psychotherapist at the British
Association of Pychotherapists. She has worked for a number of years within
residential therapeutic childcare and therapeutic foster care organisations and
is currently Principal Child Psychotherapist at the Mulberry Bush School. She
also has experience and interest in parent–infant work and teaches Infant
Observation.
Lesley Caldwell is a psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytic Association and
a psychoanalytic psychotherapist for the BAP in private practice. She is
Honorary Reader in the Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London, the
Chair of the Winnicott Trust and one of its editors. Her most recent publication
(with Angela Joyce) is R eading Winnicott (Routledge 2011).
Anita Colloms is a senior member of the British Association of Psychotherapists
where she trained as a child and adolescent psychotherapist. She worked in
NHS CAMHS for a number of years before training in work with adults and is
also a member of the International and British Psychoanalytic Associations. In
tune with this unique experience of undertaking all possible trainings offered
via the BAP, she has collaborated in the development of many courses and
taught for the Child Training, the Adult Psychoanalytic Training and the MSc/
MA run jointly with Birkbeck, a college of London University. She has a
special interest in early infancy, working in a Special Care Baby Unit and
teaching Infant Observation.
Deirdre Dowling is Joint Organising Tutor at the BAP Child and Adolescent
psychoanalytic psychotherapy training, after working for many years as Head
Child Psychotherapist at the Cassel Hospital. She has also set up the Lantern