Those readers who do any psychoanalytic writing undoubtedly have a conglomeration of ideas, partially written papers, lectures, clinical inspirations, and sundry other thoughts scattered throughout your files. Probably you are wistfully waiting for a little time to open up so you can put them into publishable form. Some of them may represent your best thoughts, while others lay unwin-nowed and saved from the trash heap only because (time, again!) you haven't gotten around to discarding them. This book contains such gleanings from the files of Donald Winnicott: almost 90 selections of interest to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, nearly half of which had not been published at the time of his death in 1971.

Although (as one might expect from Winnicott's having left them unpublished) the book contains little that he has not said