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Ruthless Winnicott : the role of ruthlessness in psychoanalysis and political protest / Sally Swartz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swartz, Sally, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Winnicott, D. W. (Donald Woods), 1896-1971.
- Winnicott, D. W.
- Object relations (Psychoanalysis).
- Protest movements.
- Compassion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 158 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
- Biography/History:
- Sally Swartz, PhD, is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and academic, teaching, supervising and practising in Cape Town, South Africa. She has an enduring interest in the traumatic effects of colonialism, which was the subject of her monograph, Homeless Wanderers: Movement and Mental Illness in the Cape Colony in the Nineteenth Century (2015). Ruthless Winnicott brings together her interest in the history of colonialism in South Africa, psychoanalytic psychotherapy and the decolonial turn.
- Contents:
- We want to be eaten
- Ruthlessness and idealization
- Having a good peep : false selves and use of the therapeutic space
- The weeping couch
- Masks, slipping
- Rhodes, falling
- Ruth and the missing middle
- Decolonizing psychoanalysis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 06, 2018).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Fanny & Michael Pertnoy Endowed Fund for Psychoanalytic Studies.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Swartz, Sally. Ruthless Winnicott.
- ISBN:
- 0429436637
- 9780429791550
- 0429791550
- 9780429791543
- 0429791542
- 9780429436635
- Publisher Number:
- 99991106151
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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