This bold and witty, yet scholarly biography is the first the trace the full life and work of this highly influential and brilliant pediatrician-turned-analyst. This insightful story probes the roots in Winnicott's personal life of his influential concepts, such as the "holding environment" so crucial to psychotherapy and the "transitional object" known to every parent as the "security blanket." His astonishing career involved many of the great figures in psychoanalysis and psychology, not just Melanie Klein and Anna Freud, but the whole eccentric Bloomsbury scene including the Stracheys, R. D. Laing, and the controversial Pakistani prince and analyst, Masud Khan. For anyone interested not only in psychology and psychoanalysis but also in human nature and the great figures who have explored it, this book will be passionately absorbing.

罗伯特•罗德曼（F. Robert Rodman，1934—2004）

美国知名精神分析师，在哈佛大学取得学士学位后，于波士顿大学医学院取得医师资格。曾为纽泽西普林斯顿尖端精神分析研究学会成员，并在加州执业。他对温尼科特的热忱极大推动了温尼科特相关的教学演讲、临床研究和论文等相关资料的出版。