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This slim volume is designed as part of a series of books introducing the readership of counsellors and psychotherapists to leading innovators in their field, aiming to provide a comprehensive overview of their theory and contributions. This is an excellent aim. D. W. Winnicott now joins the previous series figures of Freud, Klein, Rogers, Perls, Berne, Beck, Ellis, Wolpe and Kelly, in Michael Jacobs's account of his theory and practice, his particular presentation of Winnicott's major contributions to each. As well as this, Jacobs includes a brief biography, an attempt at an appraisal of critical views and, finally, an assessment of Winnicott's overall influence.
In reading this volume what needs to be kept in mind is that this concise examination of Winnicott's position is in relation to the field of counselling and psychotherapy per se, and not specifically, or only incidentally, to the fields of paediatrics, psychoanalysis, child psychology and psychiatry, child development, child care and education, to which, among others, Winnicott may be said to have contributed. It is important to keep this overall framework as a reference point; otherwise the attempt that Jacobs makes to provide an informed account of Winnicott's position and contributions may seem to the readers who come to him from these other related fields to