Originally published: London : Tavistock, 1965.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface Acknowledgements Part1 1. The First Year of Life: Modern Views on the Emotional Development 2. The Relationship of a Mother to her Baby at the Beginning 3. Growth and Development in Immaturity 4. On Security 5. The Five Year Old 6. Integrative and Disruptive Factors in Family Life 7. The Family Affected by Depressive Illness in one or both Parents 8. The Effect of Psychosis on Family Life 9. The Effect of Psychotic Parents on the Emotional Development of the Child 10. Adolescence: Struggling through the Doldrums 11. The Family and Emotional Maturity Part 2 12. Theoretical Statements of the Field of Child Psychiatry 13. The Contribution of Psycho-Analysis to Midwifery 14. Advising Parents 15. Casework with Mentally Ill Children 16. The Deprived Child and how he can be compensated for Loss of Family Life 17. Group Influences and the Maladjusted Child: the School Aspect 18. Some Thoughts on the Meaning of the Word Democracy

The Family and Individual Development represents a decade of writing from a thinker who was at the peak of his powers as perhaps the leading post-war figure in developmental psychiatry. In these pages, Winnicott chronicles the complex inner lives of human beings, from the first encounter between mother and newborn, through the 'doldrums' of adolescence, to maturity. As Winnicott explains in his final chapter, the health of a properly functioning democratic society 'derives from the working of the ordinary good home.