Donald Winnicott (1896-1971) was trained in paediatrics, a profession that he practiced to the end of his life, in particular at the Paddington Green Children's Hospital. He began analysis with James Strachey in 1923, became a member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society in 1935, and twice served as its President. He was also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and of the British Psychological Society.

• Preface -- D.W.W.: A Reflection -- Psycho-Analysis: Theory and Practice -- Early Disillusion -- Knowing and Not Knowing: A Clinical Example -- A Point in Technique -- Play in the Analytic Situation -- Fragments Concerning Varieties of Clinical Confusion -- Excitement in the Aetiology of Coronary Thrombosis -- Hallucination and Dehallucination -- Ideas and Definitions -- Psychogenesis of a Beating Fantasy -- Nothing at the Centre -- The Fate of the Transitional Object -- Notes on Play -- Psycho-Neurosis in Childhood -- Further Remarks on the Theory of the Parent-Infant Relationship -- A Note on a Case Involving Envy -- Perversions and Pregenital Fantasy -- Two Notes on the Use of Silence -- Fear of Breakdown -- The Importance of the Setting in Meeting Regression in Psycho-Analysis -- Psycho-Somatic Disorder -- The Psychology of Madness: a Contribution from Psycho-Analysis -- The Concept of Trauma in Relation to the Development of the Individual within the Family -- Notes on Withdrawal and Regression -- New Light on Children's Thinking -- Comment on Obsessional Neurosis and "Frankie" -- A Note on the Mother-Foetus Relationship -- Absence and Presence of a Sense of Guilt Illustrated in Two Patients -- On the Split-off Male and Female Elements -- The Concept of Clinical Regression Compared with That of Defence Organisation -- Addendum to "The Location of Cultural Experience" -- Playing and Culture -- Interpretation in Psycho-Analysis -- Thinking and Symbol-Formation -- On "The Use of an Object" -- Development of the Theme of the Mother's Unconscious as Discovered in Psycho-Analytic Practice -- The Mother-Infant Experience of Mutuality -- On the Basis for Self in Body -- Individuation -- Psycho-Analytic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents -- Private Practice -- The Squiggle Game -- The Value of the Therapeutic Consultation -- Deductions Drawn from a Psychotherapeutic Interview with an Adolescent -- A Child Psychiatry Case Illustrating Delayed Reaction to Loss -- Physical and Emotional Disturbances in an Adolescent Girl -- Mother's Madness Appearing in the Clinical Material as an Ego-Alien Factor -- On the Work of Other Analysts -- Susan Isaacs -- Marion Milner -- Ernest Jones -- Dorothy Burlingham -- W. R. D. Fairbairn -- John Bowlby -- Michael Balint -- Melanie Klein: On Her Concept of Envy -- Joseph Sandler -- Sigmund Freud -- Harold F. Searles -- C. G. Jung -- Erik H. Erikson -- Virginia Axline -- Willi Hoffer -- James Strachey -- Anna Freud -- On Other Forms of Treatment -- Physical Therapy of Mental Disorder: Convulsion Therapy -- Physical Therapy of Mental Disorder: Leucotomy -- Occupational Therapy -- Behaviour Therapy -- Physiotherapy and Human Relations -- Postscript: D.W.W. on D.W.W.