Finding the Piggle

Dr Corinne Masur is a licensed clinical psychologist, a child and adult psychoanalyst, an associate supervising child analyst, and an adult supervising psychoanalyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia (PCOP). She has been in private practice, seeing mothers and infants, children of all ages, and adults for over thirty-five years. She is the co-director of The Parent Child Center and a founder of the Philadelphia Center for Psychoanalytic Education (PCPE) and The Philadelphia Declaration of Play, an organisation which advocates for the right of all children to have access to free, imaginative play. She is a member of The Difficult Cases Study Group at PCOP and The Child Relational Study Group of The Institute for Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (IRPP). She is author of the blog Thoughtful Parenting (www.thoughtfulparenting.org) and she has written, lectured, and taught on a variety of subjects including early childhood bereavement, mourning, the denial of death in psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, child development, the development of trust in childhood, the effect of divorce on children, and she has recently published a book entitled Flirting With Death: Psychoanalysts Consider Mortality. She is on the faculty at PCOP and is a three-time recipient of the J. Alexis Burland Award for excellence in teaching.

This thought-provoking, well-written, and well-organized book is a compendium of commentaries regarding a case study by Donald Winnicott [...] I heartily recommend Finding the Piggle to clinicians and others who have a basic knowledge of contemporary psychoanalysis and of course to all those who have read Winnicott’s case study itself. It is a powerful statement of what can emerge when you bring two or more people together in a consulting room with an open mind and heart.

• AcknowledgementsAbout the editor and contributorsForeword by Angela JoyceIntroduction by Corinne MasurCHAPTER ONEThe name of the Piggle: reconsidering Winnicott’s classic case in light of some conversations with adult “Gabrielle”Deborah Anna LuepnitzCHAPTER TWO“The Piggle Papers”: an archival investigation 1961 – 1977Brett KahrCHAPTER THREEReappraising Winnicott’s The Piggle: a critical commentaryChristopher ReevesCHAPTER FOURThe Piggle: rivalrous or bereft?Corinne MasurCHAPTER FIVEChild analysis is SHARED: holding the child’s relational context in mindLaurel SilberCHAPTER SIXA child analyst looks at The Piggle in 2020Justine Kalas ReevesCHAPTER SEVENInviting the Piggle into therapy: a contemporary perspectiveZack EleftheriadouConclusionCorinne MasurIndex