Home is Where We Start from: Essays by a Psychoanalyst

This collection brings together some of psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott’s most important work contributing to our understanding of the minds of children. The essays range in topic from ‘The Concept of a Healthy Individual’ and ‘The Value of Depression’ to ‘Delinquancy as a sign of Hope’. All reveal Winnicott’s vision of the ways in which the developing self interacts with the family and the larger society.