This bold and witty, yet scholarly biography is the first the trace the full life and work of this highly influential and brilliant pediatrician-turned-analyst. This insightful story probes the roots in Winnicott's personal life of his influential concepts, such as the "holding environment" so crucial to psychotherapy and the "transitional object" known to every parent as the "security blanket." His astonishing career involved many of the great figures in psychoanalysis and psychology, not just Melanie Klein and Anna Freud, but the whole eccentric Bloomsbury scene including the Stracheys, R. D. Laing, and the controversial Pakistani prince and analyst, Masud Khan. For anyone interested not only in psychology and psychoanalysis but also in human nature and the great figures who have explored it, this book will be passionately absorbing.

羅伯特•羅德曼（F. Robert Rodman，1934—2004）

美國知名精神分析師，在哈佛大學取得學士學位後，於波士頓大學醫學院取得醫師資格。曾為紐澤西普林斯頓尖端精神分析研究學會成員，並在加州執業。他對溫尼科特的熱忱極大推動瞭溫尼科特相關的教學演講、臨床研究和論文等相關資料的齣版。