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This is a most intriguing book, in which the editor has assembled 18 papers by 15 authors. The more one studies Donald Winnicott, the more fascinating he becomes. He is a multifaceted individual, creative in spirit, and a scholar. Jan Abram writes in the introduction that the principal aim of this volume is to demonstrate that Winnicott's contribution constitutes a major revolution. This may have been her initial aim, but as she assembled the various authors, it became a multisided collage of Winnicott the person, the writer, and the theoretician. Three short papers by Winnicott (talks and notes) are included and give the reader a flavor of his “informal” style of writing: familiar, colloquial, yet original and poetic. These papers are delightful to read and an essential feature of this collage. I recently reviewed a book of a collection of Winnicott's most important papers. Many of these were written in the standard abstract metapsychological style of the British psychoanalytic culture of his time, and not in his lucid, appealing, casual style. I was puzzled by this contrast and glad to find illuminating remarks by Winnicott in one of the papers titled, “Winnicott and American Analysts” by Nellie Thompson. Winnicott, in a letter to David Rapaport, wrote: “I am one of those people who feel compelled to work in my own way and to express myself in my own language first; by a struggle I sometimes come around to rewording what I am saying to bring it in line with other work” (p. 389). In a similar vein are his comments in the paper, “D.W.W. on D.W.W.”: “I've realized more and more as time went on what a tremendous lot I've lost from not correlating my work with the work of others. It's not only annoying to other people but it's also rude and it has meant that what I've said has been isolated and people have to do a lot of work to get at it. It happens to be my temperament and it's a big fault” (p. 33). Communication with others was very important to Winnicott. He was ve