This book presents the last written work of the great English psychoanalyst Donald Woods Winnicott, which was written shortly before his death and first published in 1974 in the International Review of Psycho-Analysis.

Here, Winnicott succinctly and concisely reminds us of some of his key positions, in order to develop the case for the fear of breakdown, based on his clinical experiences.

This text, aside from its inexhaustible clinical wealth, can be read as the effort of an intellectual to speak about his work. It is a text in the form of a testament.

The introductory note about Winnicott and his work, as well as the selective comments by the translator and psychoanalyst Panos Aloupis, illuminate the reading of this dense text.