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With the exception of Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung, no other figure in the history of psychoanalysis has written as many books, monographs, pamphlets, chapters, essays, reviews, obituaries, lectures, notes and letters as Donald Winnicott. The prolific paediatrician and psychoanalyst often worked late into the night, and quite frequently through the weekend as well (Khan, 1988), in order to produce his unparalleled body of work, ranging from his first book Clinical Notes on Disorders of Childhood (Winnicott, 1931), to the posthumously published text on Thinking about Children (Winnicott, 1996), which has only recently appeared in print. To date, no fewer than nineteen volumes bear the name of D.W. Winnicott on the title page (excluding, of course, the many books written about him). Amid this explosion of material by Donald Winnicott, mental health practitioners will now require a lengthy period of digestion in which we can begin to absorb and appreciate Winnicott's seemingly endless contributions to the fields of psychoanalysis and child psychotherapy.
The introductory books about Winnicott by Madeleine Davis and David Wallbridge (1981) and by Adam Phillips (1988) have provided trainees with a basic course on the work of Plymouth's most famous son; and I myself have written the first Winnicott biography (Kahr, 1996) in an effort to supply both students and practitioners with a taste of the historical background to Winnicott's oeuvre. In the wake of the centenary of Winnicott's birth (7 April 1896), a number of other books have now joined the shelves of our Winnicott libraries, notably, Alexander Newman's erudite and extensive dictionary of Winnicott's theoretical concepts, somewhat cumbersomely entitled Non-Compliance