Winnicott was a healer with the qualities of a parent a magician a teacher a poet & a friend. The editors of this book have done a great service in collecting & arranging papers dating from the experiences of the evacuation in the Second World War up to some of Winnicotts continued explorations of his own philosophy"
- The British Medical Journal D. W. Winnicott was one of the giants of child psychiatry & psychoanalysis. He argued eloquently for an increased sensitivity to children their development & their needs. Deprivation & Delinquency is an invaluable collection of his work on the theme of the relationship between antisocial behaviour or more chronically delinquency & childhood experiences of deprivation. Winnicott examines children under stress the nature & origin of antisocial tendency & the practical management of difficult children -- issues which have once again exploded onto the social agenda."