Scientific Meeting | Friday April 17, 7:00PM - 9:00PM
Topic: Graduate Society Scientific Meeting

Noticing Understanding Responding - Winnicott at Work

This paper aims to extend the understanding of Donald Winnicott’s theoretical and clinical assumptions through his concern with play and playing, and its links with the development of psychic flexibility. It approaches his work through his extensive clinical experience with babies and children, and with neurotic and more disturbed adults. It highlights the need for the analyst to meet the patient on their own terms and be prepared to wait for them to arrive at a quality of psychic life through the continuing presence of the analyst. Dr. Caldwell beliees that playing originates in and depends on the patient’s capacity to be, and to live from that being, most especially with oneself and only then with others, though Winnicott himself argues that these different ways of being initially emerge together. Dr. Caldwell illustrates this through his brief work with a child and his analysis with an adult woman.

Event Location

Scientific Meeting | Friday April 17, 7:00PM - 9:00PM

About the Event.

This paper aims to extend the understanding of Donald Winnicott’s theoretical and clinical assumptions through his concern with play and playing, and its links with the development of psychic flexibility. It approaches his work through his extensive clinical experience with babies and children, and with neurotic and more disturbed adults. It highlights the need for the analyst to meet the patient on their own terms and be prepared to wait for them to arrive at a quality of psychic life through the continuing presence of the analyst. Dr. Caldwell beliees that playing originates in and depends on the patient’s capacity to be, and to live from that being, most especially with oneself and only then with others, though Winnicott himself argues that these different ways of being initially emerge together. Dr. Caldwell illustrates this through his brief work with a child and his analysis with an adult woman.

About Our Speaker.

Professor Lesley Caldwell, MA, PhD, FIPA

Professor Lesley Caldwell, MA, PhD, FIPA, is a member, retired, of the British Association, a Clinical Associate of the British Society, Honorary Professor in the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College London, and Visiting Professor at the Winnicott Centre, University of Rome, La Sapienza. She was the European representative on the Executive Committee of the IPA (2023–2025) and a Board member from 2021- 2025. She was an Editor and Trustee for the Winnicott Trust from 2002 to 2016 and its Chair of Trustees from 2008 to 2012. With Helen Taylor Robinson she is Joint General Editor of The Collected Works of Donald Winnicott (Oxford University Press, 2016) which won The American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis book prize (History section) in 2017, and which is celebrating its tenth anniversary in Autumn 2026. She has been working on themes of analytic communication and of being as central to clinical practice. Articles associated with these issues appear in the Rivista di Psicoanalisi (2018), the British Journal of Psychotherapy (2018), and JAPA(2024). As Director of the Squiggle Foundation (2000 to 2003) and Editor of its Winnicott Studies monograph series (Karnac & Squiggle Foundation, 2000–2008) Prof. Caldwell published Art, Creativity, Living (2000), The Elusive Child (2003), Sex and Sexuality: Winnicottian Perspectives (2005) and Winnicott and the Psychoanalytic Tradition (2007). With Angela Joyce she published Reading Winnicott for the New Library teaching series (2011)."

Learning Objectives.

1 Recognise the foundations of Donald Winnicott’s work in his approach to the constitution of being
2. Emphasise the analytic process as one of accompanying the patient in the exploration of and growing trust in a continuing encounter with a self that may only be present, if at all, in a very rudimentary way.
3 Describe a consistency in ways of working as an analyst in the one off consultation and a continuing analysis.

 

CME/ CE Statement.

ACCME Accreditation Statement

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and Psychoanalytic Association of New York. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

 

AMA Credit Designation Statement

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

Disclosure Statement

The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.


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CME/ CE Credits Available: 2

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