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In 1951, Winnicott's essay on transitional objects established his place as a completely new kind of psychoanalytic thinker. Collections of papers appeared in 1958 and 1965, and when he died in January of 1971, he was working on the page proofs of two of his greatest works, Playing and Reality and Therapeutic Consultations in Child Psychiatry. Numerous posthumous books have since been added to his bibliography and as we approach the centenary of his birth in 1996, worldwide interest in his work is enormous.
His contributions are so idiosyncratic and so diverse that a sense of the whole has been inaccessible short of a careful study of the total output. Boundary and Space(1983), co-authored by the leading authority on Winnicott, Madeleine Davis, who died in 1991, was the first attempt to summarize his work; Winnicott and Paradox(1987), by Clancier & Kalmanovitch, was another, less extensive, but valuable effort; and a book by Adam Phillips, called simply Winnicott(1988) is an eloquent statement of the essentials.
In The Work and Play of Winnicott, Dr Grolnick attempts to provide us with a summary and critique of Winnicott's work. He packs a tremendous amount