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With the publication of The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott (Caldwell and Taylor Robinson 2016), there has been considerable interest in drawing on the many newly available archival documents that help us fill in the picture of the psychoanalytic odyssey undertaken by Winnicott during his fruitful and generative career as a pediatrician/psychoanalyst. A range of scholarly contributions from a diverse, international group of analysts, each providing an “introduction” to Winnicott's corpus, have thrown fresh light on the intellectual and historical forces that shaped Winnicott's thinking and theorizing. To supplement this work, for the greater part written by Anglo-European analysts, I decided to gather a group of American analysts, also familiar with Winnicott's work, for a different kind of project: namely, tracing his impact in the wake of his numerous lecture visits to the United States in the 1960s.
With the aid of Nellie Thompson, chair of the History, Archives, and Library Committee at APsaA, a group of colleagues convened a panel, “Winnicott in America,” at the APsaA meetings in February 2019. The panel, on which I sat, included Peter Goldberg, Nirav Soni, and Karen Melikian as well. Our aim was to discuss Winnicott's visits to American psychoanalytic institutes in 1962, 1963, and 1968. Nellie Thompson chaired the panel.
Our panel was fortunate in this instance because both Lesley Caldwell and Amal Treacher-Kabesh, both members of the Winnicott Trust in