Donald Woods Winnicott (1896-1971) was one of Britain's foremost pediatricians and psychoanalysts. He studied at the Leys School and at Jesus College, both in Cambridge, before training as a physician at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London.

Introduction; I: The Human Child Examined: Soma, Psyche, Mind; Introduction; 1: The Psyche-Soma and the Mind; 2: Ill-Health; 3: Inter-Relationship of Body Disease and Psychological Disorder; 4: The Psycho-Somatic Field; II: The Emotional Development of the Human Being; Introduction; 1: Interpersonal Relationships; 2: The Concept of Health Using Instinct Theory; III: Establishment of Unit Status; Introduction; 1: The Depressive Position; 2: Development of the Theme of the Inner World; 3: Various Types of Psycho-Therapy Material; 4: Hypochondriacal Anxiety; IV: From Instinct Theory to EGO Theory; Introduction: Primitive Emotional Development; 1: Establishment of Relationship with External Reality; 2: Integration; 3: Dwelling of Psyche in Body; 4: The Earliest States; 5: Primary State of Being: Pre-Primitive Stages; 6: Chaos; 7: The Intellectual Function; 8: Withdrawal and Regression; 9: The Birth Experience; 10: Environment; 11: Psycho-Somatic Disorder Reconsidered