"I wholeheartedly recommend Finding the Piggle to anyone interested in the rich life of children, adults and families, as an invaluable companion for anyone reading The Piggle today, whether for the first time or returning to it and in the ongoing understanding...

Dr Chris Brogan, Adult Psychotherapist & Squiggle Trustee, provides his brief review and reflections on Sally Weintrobe's This is a book whose publication is very timely with COP 26 summit being hosted in Scotland later this year. Ms Weintrobe...

Dr. Amal Treacher Kabesh, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham reviews two books highlighting the value of reflecting on Winnicott's ideas.

"For me, this is an important book, which will become a key source book and reference in the years to come." Dr. Phil McEvoy

Bibby is a teacher and educationalist who comes as a breath of fresh air in an environment where the politicisation and commodification of education threatens to undermine the core role of adults and institutions in providing the facilitating environment...

A major achievement of the book is in providing an unusually detailed prospectus for anyone who wants to find help for children who have experienced profound failures of care and protection and who present severe challenges to those caring for them.

"Throughout this book, Winnicott’s compassion for children’s suffering and his deep interest in the problems of living and parenting shine though. Bradley provides us with a clear and useful reformulation of Winnicott’s ideas, based on years of profe...

Not working: why we have to stop. Granta Books. London 260 pages The oft-repeated statement of the need to achieve a good ‘work/life balance’ - “the amount of time you spend doing your job compared with the amount of time you spend with your ...

Dr. Chris Brogan,reviews a book which promotes the identification of individual, community and professional resources which engages iwth intractable family and social problems and finds a matrix which resonates with the spirit of the maturational processes...

‘Winnicott’s gift was his ability to provide us with a psychoanalysis that appreciates the specialness of the ordinary without sentimentalising or disregarding complexity. The papers in this book demonstrate how his ideas integrate the physical, personal, int...

Dr André Green was born in Cairo in 1927. He had emigrated to Paris, France as a boy and after studying medicine, at the age of 30, he started his trajectory in psychoanalysis. He qualified as a psychoanalyst in 1965 and became a member of the Société de...

A central theme of Winnicott’s writings and formulations is integration, yet a criticism of him has been that he either failed to develop an integrated theory or failed to present his theory systematically. Dias set herself task of demonstrating that W...

Tessa Dalley reflects on The Madeleine Davis lecture 2017 and Gregorio Kohon's related book.

"Brett Kahr’s Tea With Winnicott is a curious and highly original offering: a work of ‘imaginary non-fiction’, wherein child psychoanalyst Winnicott returns to his former home and consulting room for a posthumous interview with the author....."

The language of distress focusses principally on the ways in which children’s emotional conflicts may be expressed through physical symptoms and how parental responses can inadvertently perpetuate these symptoms. His approach is to seek to help the c...

The book describes two approaches aimed at helping students learn how psychotherapeutic understanding can help them with their patients: the student psychotherapy scheme and student Balint groups. There are accounts of the scheme both from its supervisors...

Children's health problems can place enormous strain on both children and their families. Whether symptoms are acute or chronic, assessment and treatment can be confusing and frightening even when the illness itself is not dangerous. Understanding the...

Peter Shoenberg (2007) Psychosomatics: The Uses of Psychotherapy Palgrave ISBN 13 : 9780333946510 Paperback   “The mind and body are in constant interaction, and it is increasingly recognized that any true understanding of i...