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In this magical review essay, John Foehl and Christopher Bonovitz, two deeply engaged clinicians, bring the clinical sensibilities of Winnicott's work with children into full daylight. Why magical? The authors are so wonderfully reactive to the clinical Winnicott they find in these pages, the man speaking both to children and about children. Perhaps magic may be the only word that can convey the mystery of the evolving experience of knowing and being generated by Winnicott and his child patients engaging in forms of play with no expectations of what it might see or find. It made us realize that in so much of the Collected Works Winnicott is talking to adults, peers, and colleagues and teaching us in his inimitable manner, but in this volume we witness twenty-one different brief consultations with children. We listen to Winnicott at work, speaking to children and then about children to his reader. It seems magical to have this unexpected moment of supervision and witnessing; to be given this experiential counterpart to Winnicott's earlier theoretical work.
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