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This is the first installment of a series of reviews of the twelve volumes of Winnicott's published work (and some unpublished items): articles, books, letters, obituaries, and drawings. The set also provides an online link to a selection of Winnicott's radio broadcasts.
Quite deliberately, the editors of this collection organized the material in chronological order designed to show an emerging Winnicott—a Winnicott journeying from the realm of medicine to that of psychoanalysis, transforming from pediatrician to psychoanalyst. In an introduction to the collection, presented at the Sándor Ferenczi Center in 2017 and later published in Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Harris and Aron 2018), the general editors, Helen Taylor Robinson and Lesley Caldwell, have outlined the steps toward this publication.1 The design and execution of the Collected Works, produced under the aegis of the Winnicott Trust, went through a number of editors and phases and finally appeared in 2016. Both Robinson and Caldwell give great credit to Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, who began to imagine the form this endeavor would take and tragically died a year into the project.
In this first installment, we publish two reviews. In an essay by Miriam and Howard Steele on Volume 1, we follow Winnicott's work from 1911 to 1938, an astonishing twenty-seven years in which Winnicott moves from pediatrician to psychoanalyst, on the journey traversing World War I, the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, and the extraordinary transformations that those events wrought in politics, social life, medicine, psychoanalysis, and personal