Lucinda  Ballantyne, LICSW, Claudia Gold, MD, and Gil Noam, PhD, respond to Winnicott’s ideas, expressed his late and enigmatic paper, “The use of an object and relating through identifications” (1969,)to the difference between relating and usage (distinct from exploitation), and to the implications that Winnicott raised for development in infants and adults, for analytic transference and countertransference, and for all creative psychic processes (including creative writing). Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, The 2017 Solange Skinner Conference, Apr 1, 2017.

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