Product Description: 'Little madnesses' are our most deeply felt enthusiasms, investments and attachments in the sphere of culture. The term was coined by the child psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, whose work on transitional phenomena grew out of his naming of the transitional object, and extended into preliminary explorations of the crucial role played by cultural experience in a life that feels satisfying...read more

A poet and psychiatrist draws on the multiple fields of psychology, history, literature, sociology, and philosophy to shed new light on how and why humans invest objects with meaning. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: What does it mean to be and feel alive and real?How do we become and be alive together?Human beings are uniquely concerned with the question and marvel of what it means to feel alive and real, as well as the lifelong struggle of being alive together...read more

Product Description: When should my child stop using a pacifier? How can I stop my child from sucking his thumb? When is a child too old to carry a teddy bear? Young children seem to form unshakable attachments to various objects -- blankets, stuffed animals, toys, television, even computers -- leaving parents to wonder: are these habits healthy? Which should be broken and how? Now, Mark L...read more

Product Description: This work offers a collection of 31 essays that explore Donald W. Winnicott's recognition and delineation of transitional objects and phenomena. Written by American and European authors, it serves as a tribute to Winnicott and goes some way towards placing his seminal ideas into proper perspective in terms of child development and clinical applied psychoanalysis...read more

Product Description: Nathan Schwartz-Salant, Murray Stein and several other Jungian analysts review Liminality and Transitional Phenomena in psychoanalysis.Volume Includes:Murray Stein, The Muddle in Analysis       Robert L. Moore,  Ritual, Sacred Space, and Healing: The Psychoanalyst  as Ritual Elder       James A...read more

Product Description: The first thorough compilation and creative collation of papers on transitional objects, written since D.W. Winnicott's original work.

Product Description: The Solace Paradigm: An Eclectic Search for Psychological Immunity