FINDING THE PIGGLE Reconsidering D. W. Winnicott’s Most Famous Child Case Edited by Corinne Masur Te two colour drawings in Chapter One are reproduced with the kind permission of Gabrielle. First published in 2021 by Phoenix Publishing House Ltd 62 Bucknell Road Bicester Oxfordshire OX26 2DS Copyright © 2021 to Corinne Masur for the edited collection, and to the individual authors for their contributions. Te rights of the contributors to be identifed as the authors of this work have been asserted in accordance with §§ 77 and 78 of the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A C.I.P. for this book is available from the British Library ISBN-13: 978-1-912691-63-0 Typeset by Medlar Publishing Solutions Pvt Ltd, India www.fringthemind.com Contents Acknowledgements vii About the editor and contributors ix Foreword xiii Angela Joyce Introduction xxi Corinne Masur CHAPTER ONE Te name of the Piggle: reconsidering Winnicott’s classic case in light of some conversations with the adult Gabrielle 1 Deborah Anna Luepnitz CHAPTER TWO “Te Piggle Papers”: an archival investigation, 1961–1977 41 Brett Kahr CHAPTER THREE Reappraising Winnicott’s Te Piggle: a critical commentary 101 Christopher Reeves v vi CONTENTS CHAPTER FOUR Te Piggle: rivalrous or beref? 165 Corinne Masur CHAPTER FIVE Child analysis is shared: holding the child’s relational context in mind 195 Laurel Silber CHAPTER SIX A child analyst looks at Te Piggle in 2020 211 Justine Kalas Reeves CHAPTER SEVEN Inviting the Piggle into therapy: a contemporary perspective 229 Zack Elefheriadou Final thoughts 249 Corinne Masur Index 251 Acknowledgements Greatest thanks go to Kate Pearce, my wonderful editor who provided calm, intelligent guidance and help throughout the process of putting this book together during a pandemic. I would also like to thank Deborah Luepnitz without whom this book would not exist. It was Dr Luepnitz who originally wrote about her dis- covery of the identity of the adult Gabrielle and whose brilliant paper on this subject inspired me to look further at the case of Te Piggle. Tis book was rightfully Dr Luepnitz’s to edit but it was my good fortune that she was too busy to do so herself and gracious enough to allow me to do it. I would also like to thank Salman Akhtar, psychoanalyst and author extraordinaire who has supported all my writing projects and who introduced me to Kate Pearce. I must also mention my gratitude to the family of the late Christopher Reeves for granting me permission to use his two wonderful articles on Te Piggle for this volume. And, of course, I must thank all the chapter authors, Deborah Luepnitz, Laurel Silber, Zack Elefheriadou, Justine Kalas Reeves, Brett Kahr, and the late Christopher Reeves for all their brilliant work in tak- ing a fresh look at Donald Winnicott’s classic child case, Te Piggle. vii About the editor and contributors Dr Zack Elefheriadou, MSc, MA, Dip IMH, Dip NCFED, is a chartered counselling psychologist, chartered scientist and a fellow of the British Psychological Society (HCPC reg), a member of Te Bowlby Centre, and a founding scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council (London, UK). She has trained as an integrative and psychoanalytic adult psychothera- pist, child and parent–infant psychotherapist (UKCP reg). Since 1990, she has provided training and has published extensively in the follow- ing areas: developmental issues, cross-cultural work, and refugees and trauma, including the book Psychotherapy and Culture (Karnac, 2010). Currently, she works as a pastoral tutor, infant observation tutor, and clinical supervisor at Te Institute for Arts in Terapy and Education. Alongside her teaching work, she runs a consultancy, providing psycho- therapy and supervision. She is a visiting external examiner for doctoral level university students and a member of the UKCP Child Faculty sub- committee, Infant–Parent Psychotherapy. Zack feels passionate about promoting early intervention and provides teaching to midwives and paediatric nurses on ways to facilitate the parent–infant relationship. ix x ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS Angela Joyce, fellow and training and supervising psychoanalyst and child psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society. At the Anna Freud Centre she was a member of the pioneering Parent–Infant Project and jointly led the child psychotherapy service. She works in private practice in London. She is currently chair of the Winnicott Trust, a trustee of the Squiggle Foundation, and has been an honor- ary senior lecturer at University College London. Her publications in Winnicottian studies include Reading Winnicott edited with Lesley Caldwell, New Library of Psychoanalysis Teaching Series (Routledge, 2011); ‘Introduction to Volume 6’, Te Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott (OUP, 2016); and Donald Winnicott and the History of the Present edited (Karnac, 2017). Professor Brett Kahr has worked in the mental health profession for over forty years. He is Senior Fellow at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology in London and, also, Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis and Mental Health in the Regent’s School of Psychotherapy and Psy- chology at Regent’s University London. He holds additional honorary appointments as Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the Centre for Child Mental Health, as Consultant in Psychology to Te Bowlby Centre, and as Consultant Psychotherapist to Te Balint Consultancy. He also serves as Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University, in recognition of his contributions to media psychology, having worked for many years as Resident Psychothera- pist on BBC Radio 2. In addition to his roles as a clinician and teacher, Kahr is also a trained historian and has held the position of Trustee at the Freud Museum London and Freud Museum Publications, and has also worked as series co-editor of the “History of Psychoanalysis Series” for the publishers Routledge. Kahr has authored ffeen books and has served as series editor for more than sixty additional titles. His own publications include D. W. Winnicott: A Biographical Portrait, which received the Gradiva Award for Biography; Sex and the Psyche, which became a Waterstones Non-Fiction Bestseller, serialised in Te Times; Tea with Winnicott; Cofee with Freud; How to Flourish as a Psychothera- pist; Bombs in the Consulting Room: Surviving Psychological Shrapnel; and Dangerous Lunatics: Trauma, Criminality, and Forensic Psychotherapy. ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS xi Kahr has researched the life and work of Donald Winnicott for over thirty years and is currently completing the frst part of his multi- volume biography of Winnicott, based on his interviews with more than 900 people who knew the great psychoanalyst personally. A registrant of both the British Psychoanalytic Council and the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, Kahr works with individuals and couples in Central London. Justine Kalas Reeves is a child, adolescent, and adult psychoanalyst in Washington, DC. She trained at the Anna Freud Centre in London, and the Contemporary Freudian Society in Washington, DC. She teaches at CFS and Howard University. She is currently secretary of the Associa- tion for Child Psychoanalysis. Deborah Anna Luepnitz, PhD, was on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine for over thirty years. In 2007, she joined the teaching faculty of the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia. Her books include: Te Family Interpreted: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Family Terapy (1988) and Schopenhauer’s Porcupines: Five Stories of Psycho- therapy (2002), and she is a contributing author to the Cambridge Com- panion to Lacan. In 2005, Dr Luepnitz launched IFA (Insight For All) which connects homeless adults and children with psychoanalysts will- ing to work pro bono. She received the Distinguished Educator Award from the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education in 2013, and maintains a private practice in Philadelphia. Corinne Masur, PsyD, is a child and adult psychoanalyst who has worked with children and adults in a variety of settings for over forty years. She is a co-founder of Te Parent Child Center in Philadelphia, Te Philadelphia Center for Psychoanalytic Education, and Te Philadelphia Declaration of Play. She was the editor of Flirting With Death: Psychoanalysts Consider Mortality (Routledge, 2019), and has written on childhood bereavement, the development of trust, the efect of divorce on children, and the denial of mortality, among other topics, and maintains a blog for parents: www.thoughtfulparenting.org. xii ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS Christopher Reeves was a child psychotherapist and director of the Squiggle Foundation. Between 1976 and 1990 he was frst consultant and later principal of Te Mulberry Bush School. He wrote extensively on Winnicott and issues to do with the theory and practice of child psy- chotherapy and psychoanalysis and he collaborated with Judith Issrof on the book Donald Winnicott and John Bowlby: Personal and Profes- sional Perspectives. Laurel Moldawsky Silber, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist whose train- ing beneftted enormously by Winnicott’s writings. She has been working with children and families in Bryn Mawr, PA, for over thirty years. She teaches and supervises at the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia. Her publications are in the area of play, intergenerational transmission of trauma, and childism. Her most recent publication was Locating Ruptures Encrypted in Gender: Developmental and Clinical Con- siderations, an original article which appeared in the Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy. She co-edited a special issue, “Play for a Change” (Volume 19, Issue 2, 2020) for the same journal. Foreword Angela Joyce Te Piggle (1977) is a singular example of Winnicott’s actual clinical work.