![]() ![]() Phillips also shares Winnicotts rare feeling (among psychoanalysts) for poetry. ![]() Terri Apter is a shrewd psychologist and her book The Sister Knot covers the subject of sibling rivalry: Shes got the red spade and you said I could have that! As well as being a highly original thinker, Adam Phillips writes in Winnicott with elegance and a keen sympathy about one of the great analysts of children, Donald Winnicott, who brought his powerful intuition and understanding to the subject of mother and child, as the nursing couple. Here is some reading that reflects on family relations and the deep fissures of ambivalence we feel towards those to whom we are related. Struggling to understand your relatives this bank holiday weekend? The novelist picks her favourite books, from Mansfield Park to Cold Comfort Farm Summer is traditionally a time for lucky families to recover from the strains of the work and school treadmill and take time together on holiday but this added space and time also allows the tensions that trammel and contain us in the web of family life to spring to life like waiting demons. ![]()
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