This book introduces the psychoanalytic principles of both Winnicott and Bion to compare the ways in which their concepts evolved, and to show how their different approaches contribute to distinctive psychoanalytic paradigms that warrant further research.

Jan Abram is a training and supervising psychoanalyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and visiting professor of the Psychoanalysis Unit, University College, London. She is vice- president of the European Psychoanalytic Federation. She has published several books and articles notably: The Language of Winnicott (1st edition 1996; 2nd edition 2007), which was judged Outstanding Academic Book of the Year (1997); Donald Winnicott Today (2013); The Surviving Object: Psychoanalytic Clinical Essays on Psychic Survival- of- the- Object (2022).

R.D. Hinshelwood is a fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He has written widely on clinical psychoanalysis and its wider applications to society, politics and ethics as well as comparative research methods.

Introduction Part One: The British Psychoanalytical Society 1. Donald Winnicott and Kleinian Development 2. Wilfred Bion and Klein's Schizoid Mechanisms Summary Dialogue Part Two: Working with Children and Groups 3. Babies and their Families 4. Psychodynamics and the Psychosocial Summary Dialogue Part Three: The Principle Formulations 5. Holding 6. Transformations Summary Dialogue Part Four: Consolidation and New Beginnings 7. From Primary Maternal Preoccupation to the Use of an Object 8. Rethinking and Making an Impact Summary Dialogue Part Five: Clinical Approach 9. 'A Sample of the Original Failure' 10. Content and Process Summary Dialogue Glossary