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Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri May 31 16:21:05 PDT 2002


Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> >Was D.W. Winnicott the London psychoanalyst who was raked over the coals
> >by a former patient a year or so ago in the LRB?
>
> He was a London psychoanalyst, yes. The LRB doesn't have the article
> - by the economist Wynne Godley, of all people - on its website, but
> from some subsequent letters it seems that the piece was mainly about
> Masud Khan, to whom Godley was referred by Winnicott.
>

That much comes back to me now. I doubt that I have the issue around anymore. There _may_ have been remarks about the ethics of other psychyiatrists letting the likes of Masud Khan operate for so long -- or there may have been such remarks in some of the letters. I had completely forgotten the article until the name "Winnicott" rang a faint bell.

Carrol



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