As the English translation of a French study of the work of a British psychoanalyst given to a sometimes idiosyncratic use of his own native language, Donald Winnicott: A New Approach presents an unusual challenge to both reader and reviewer. The author, Laura Dethiville, has been teaching Winnicott's work in a seminar at the Société Freudienne for many years, gaining in the process both a substantial grasp of his thinking and a respectful critique of the problems it sometimes poses (as, she acknowledges, do those of Lacan as well). In essence, her book, aimed primarily toward a French readership, documents the growing psychoanalytic transition from the traditional “Anglo-Saxon” conflict