Babies And Their Mothers

D. W. Winnicott (1896-1974), pediatrician and psychoanalyst, influenced several generations in the fields of child psychiatry, social work, and child development as well as psychoanalysis. He is known especially for his bold and brilliant imagination, and his unique, even poetic style.

* Introduction Benjamin Spock, M.D. * The Ordinary Devoted Mother * Knowing and Learning * Breast-feeding as Communication * The Newborn and His Mother * The Beginning of the Individual * Environmental Health in Infancy * The Contribution of Psychoanalysis to Midwifery * Dependence in Child Care * Communicaation Between Infant and Mother, and Mother and Infant, Compared and Contrasted