Judith Issroff | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

In Something Short of Everything about D.W. Winnicott, author Judith Issroff with whom Winnicott forged a collegial, affectionate, and playful bond during his last years contributes significantly to our knowledge of the man and clinician. Drawing largely on what Winnicott himself wrote and said about others, and on how others perceived him, the book constructs a series of collage-like assemblages that offer a dazzling, kaleidoscopic picture of the eminent psychoanalyst and pediatrician. Immediately after Donald's death, Clare Britton-Winnicott entrusted Issroff with the initial editing of the core manuscript of The Primer of Psychoanalysis on Human Nature, on which Winnicott had been working for the preceding 17 years. At the time, Clare confided that she had destroyed his letters from his first wife, Alice. Suspecting that she may also have destroyed parts of his autobiography, and knowing that biographers have relied heavily on Clare's thoroughly edited selections from his notebo