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 by Routledge 27 Church Street, Hove, East Sussex BN3 2FA Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2012 Ann Horne and Monica Lanyado The right of Ann Horne and Monica Lanyado to be identifi ed as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice : Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identifi cation and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data 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) ISBN: 978–0–203–07713–9 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Refi neCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk 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