"Winnicott's " Anni Horribiles

"The Biographical Roots of "Hate in the Counter-Transference

Bibliographic Data

ID6033029
AuthorsBrett Kahr (corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume68
Issue2
Pages173-211
Publication date2011-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican imago (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0065-860X • E-ISSN: 1085-7931
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/aim.2011.0024
OpenAlexW2000795903
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited7

Donald Winnicott's 1949 paper "Hate in the Counter-transference" has come to occupy an important place in the psychoanalytic literature, both as a feisty critique of mid-twentieth-century biological psychiatry and as a brave statement about the burdens of working psychotherapeutically with very ill patients. Hitherto, scholars have devoted little attention to this classic work, and have not explored the biographical and cultural contexts in which Winnicott developed this crucial clinical concept. In this reexamination of "Hate in the Counter-transference," the author provides new archival material, including unpublished correspondence as well as data from interviews with Winnicott's former patients, colleagues, and family members, that sheds light on Winnicott's life and work during the 1930s and 1940s. The author hopes that by situating Winnicott's pathbreaking essay in a historical framework, contemporary readers will develop a fuller appreciation of Winnicott's contribution

Art · Psychoanalysis · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions

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