The Winnicott Trust was set up by Donald Winnicott’s widow Clare Winnicott in 1984.

Its purpose was to ensure that all Winnicott’s writings should be edited and published and to advance the education of the public by promoting training and research in the field ofpsychoanalysis and child health. The first Chair of the Trust was Dr Martin James, who hadbeen a long-time colleague of Winnicott’s. He was accompanied by Dr Stella Ambache andDr Jonathan Pedder as the first Trustees. The first editors were Mrs Madeleine Davis, MrRaymond Sheppard and Dr Christopher Bollas. Over the years, other people joined them, andthe personnel changed as people retired. Past members have been Dr. Jennifer Johns, Mrs.Helen Taylor Robinson, Ms Mary Swinney, Dr. Jan Abram, Dr. Sheilagh Davies, Prof.Lesley Caldwell, Dr. Judith Trowell, Prof. Steven Groarke, Mrs Marianne Parsons. All havebeen members of the British Psychoanalytical Society.

The present Winnicott Trust membership consists of Ms. Angela Joyce (Chair), Ms EmilyAlster, Ms. Barbie Antonis, Ms. Ruth McCall, Ms. Elizabeth Wolf, Dr Amal TreacherKabesh.

In less than twenty years after it was first established, the Trust ensured the publication of asmany as possible of Winnicott’s hitherto unpublished writings. These were in a series ofbooks arranged thematically: Deprivation and delinquency (1984); Home is where we startfrom; Holding and Interpretation: Fragment of an analysis (1986); Babies and their mothers(1987); Human Nature (1988); Psychoanalytic explorations (1988); Talking to parents(1993); Thinking about children (1996).

The Collected Works remained an ambition that finally became to be a reality in 2016,published in hardback by Oxford University Press, and a fully researchable online editionwhich is available to institutions. It includes many previously unknown pieces by DrWinnicott.

The Trust has been represented by the Marsh Agency (previously the Patterson MarshAgency) since its inception.