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Clare Winnicott was one of the leading British social
workers of the 20th century. The wife of Donald Winnicott, an analysand of Melanie Klein, a wartime innovator
in caring for evacuated children, a teacher and mentor to a generation of social workers, and a gifted psychotherapist, Clare
Winnicott's life encompassed a remarkable richness of relationships and accomplishments.
Beginning with an extended biographical overview
by Joel Kanter, this volume compiles sixteen papers, interview and lecture transcripts, and letters by Clare Winnicott.
For
all concerned with children-in need, these materials offer an eloquent integration of the child's inner world and the
external realities of loss, separation and trauma. Using this comprehensive perspective, Clare's writings provide professionals
with pragmatic strategies for assisting parents in the difficult challenge of creating and sustaining facilitating environments
for troubled children.
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What they are saying about "Face to Face with Children:
"Joel Kanter has woven together so many diverse events, ideas, tasks, achievements
that are all part of Clare's life, and at the same time he has managed to depict the essential inter-relatedness between Clare
and Donald which kept the importance of playing and enjoying each other's company as the context within which the struggles
of their lives took place. "
Pearl King, Past-President, British Psychoanalytical
Society
"Joel Kanter has edited for us mental health professionals a most important and
timely book. Its focus is on the thinking and practice of Clare, whose original profession was social work, and the story
of the mutual influences between her and Donald Winnicott, the medical analyst who became her husband. It is as though Clare
and Donald began a dialogue that has grown in volume and intensity, and out of which both professions may broaden and deepen
in knowledge and therapeutic competence."
Jean Sanville, Training Analyst, Los Angeles Institute
and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies; Founding Dean, California Institute for Clinical Social Work
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"Clare Winnicott believed that childcare social workers should be able to communicate with what she called "the inner world
of children". She showed that social workers who spent time with and who could relate with, play with, and talk with children
could enable them to deal with their difficulties. Joel Kanter should be thanked for so carefully and clearly bringing Clare
Winnicott back to the notice of the world of social work."
Bob Holman, Visiting professor in social policy at the Universities of Glasgow and Swansea.
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