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  Donald Winnicott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Donald Woods Winnicott (7 April 1896 - January 28, 1971) was a pediatrician and psychoanalyst.
Winnicott rose to prominence just as the followers of Anna Freud were battling those of Melanie Klein for the right to be called Sigmund Freud's true intellectual heirs.
Winnicott, D.W. Correlation of a childhood and adult neurosis., Int.
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 Winnicott.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Donald Woods Winnicott was born into a prosperous middle-class family in Plymouth, England, in 1896.
In 1927 Winnicott was accepted for training by the British Psycho-Analytical Society, qualified as an adult analyst in 1934 and as a child analyst in 1935.
After the war Winnicott was physician in charge of the Child Department of the Institute of Psychoanalysis for 25 years; he was president of the British Psycho-Analytical Society for 2 terms; a member of UNESCO and WHO study groups, and lectured widely and wrote as well as having a private practice.
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 Texte /Saul Peña /E.G.P.
Winnicott told me something greatly related to the letter he had written me: How important it is not only that the child plays with the ball but also that he dreams of playing with the ball.
Winnicott had suffered three heart attacks and would rest on the rug in the middle of the floor at midday, before his first afternoon appointment: as was his custom, he would leave the door open.
Winnicott had stayed with her for three of four hours on an earlier occasion when, alone in London, she had been seriously ill and at that time had had no one but him.
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 APsaA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Winnicott introduced the concept of the “good-enough mother” by which he meant an ordinary woman whose maternal instincts protect the infant from anxiety and allow an illusion of omnipotence.
Winnicott was convinced by his own clinical experience, first as a pediatrician and later as a child analyst, of the importance of the first months of infancy.
Winnicott worked successfully with children and the severely disturbed and was able to tolerate considerable regression in his patients.
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 RBP - Revista Brasileira de Psicanálise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Winnicott, for the most part, does not use language to reach to conclusions, rather; he uses language to create experiences in reading that are inseparable from the ideas he presents, or more accurately, the ideas he plays with.
She uses Winnicott's concept of unfreezing the situation of environmental failure for the comprehension of the patient's condition.
Initially Winnicott, used this term but he modified it according to the development of his theory The author emphasizes a very specific question that refers to distress feeling, present in the integration movement between excited and relaxed states experienced by the baby and that is indispensable to reach the concern stage.
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When introducing her husbands work entitled "Deprivation and Delinquency" in 1983 his widow Clare Winnicott wrote "it does not seem an exaggeration to say that the manifestations of deprivation and delinquency in society are as big a threat as that of the nuclear bomb".
Dr Donald Winnicott was at the focal point of a group of British psychoanalysts in London during the ‘50s and ‘60s.
Winnicott developed his own uncannily effective methods for communicating with troubled and disturbed children which included the drawing of "squiggles" or sketches with the child, a process which seem to unlock the door to the origin of emotional problems.
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 D.W. Winnicott
Winnicott's theory is especially innovative regarding his conceptualization of the psychic space between the mother and infant, neither wholly psychological or physical, which he termed the "holding environment" and which allows for the child's transition to being more autonomous.
Winnicott's theory of "false self disorders" is uncannily similar to Laing's description of the schizoid personality in The Divided Self.
Winnicott also felt that the therapist's task is to provide such a "holding environment" for the client so that the client might have the opportunity to meet neglected ego needs and allow the true self of the client to emerge.
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 Winnicott: His Life and Work
By Alison Mountford, Psy.D. Winnicott: His Life and Work" by F. Robert Rodman, M.D., is a comprehensive biography about both the life of Donald Winnicott and his contributions to psychoanalytic thought.
He has interviewed many people who were either directly involved with Winnicott or part of his circle of colleagues and he integrates their comments with great skill.
His portrait of Donald Winnicott strikes a balance between his brilliance and his humanness.
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 Winnicott
Winnicott, as a child physician working for the Paddington Green Children's Hospital, saw many, very young disturbed children, often with their equally disturbed mothers - and soon began to see the importance of the psychological well-being and caretaking style of the mother or father on the infant's future psychic health.
Winnicott saw healthy development as starting with the good-enough mother, by which he meant an ordinary woman (or, ahem, a single father...) whose maternal instincts for her(his) baby are not unduly hampered by their own conflicts (or by the "expert" advice of others).
Winnicott found a means of reaching into a child's fantasy and dreams with the help of pencil and paper.
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 BPAS - Recognition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Winnicott’s work has become important to theorists who identify with this second tradition - often communitarians and feminists - because Winnicott, against Freud’s stress on the instinctual drives, argues that a child’s development is a manifold process which cannot be separated from the mother-infant relationship.
Winnicott asks and answers a question implicitly posed by Hegel, namely: what is the process by which mother and infant detach themselves from a state of undifferentiated unity in such a way that, ultimately, they learn to accept and love each other as independent persons?
Winnicott’s formulation, she argues, allows us see that the struggle for recognition need not breakdown into conflict and domination but can be resolved as a continuing ‘constant tension’.
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 Winnicott   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Born in Devon, the youngest of three children (2 elder sisters), Winnicott's father was involved in local politics.
Winnicott's training analysis was with GUNTRIP, another member of the British School of Psychoanalysis, along with Melanie Klein and Anna Freud.
Winnicott worked with children who were evacuees during WW2 at a time which saw the beginning of National Health Service (1947) being interested in reduction of infant mortality following the war.
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 Printable Version on Encyclopedia.com
WINNICOTT, DONALD [Winnicott, Donald] 1896-1971, British psychoanalyst, pediatrician, and child psychiatrist.
In this pursuit, he was influenced greatly by the work of Melanie Klein.
Winnicott had a major impact on object relations theory, particularly in his 1951 essay "Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena," which focused on familiar, inanimate objects that children use to stave off anxiety during times of stress.
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 Clare Winnicott: Life and Work
Clare Winnicott was one of the leading British social workers of the 20th century.
The wife of Donald Winnicott, an analysand of Melanie Klein, a wartime innovator in caring for evacuated children, a teacher and mentor to a generation of social workers, and a gifted psychotherapist, Clare Winnicott's life encompassed a remarkable richness of relationships and accomplishments.
Its focus is on the thinking and practice of Clare, whose original profession was social work, and the story of the mutual influences between her and Donald Winnicott, the medical analyst who became her husband.
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 Joel Kanter: The Untold Story of Donald and Clare Winnicott   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Donald's and Clare's work with evacuated children in Oxfordshire was perhaps the defining experience of their lives and careers.
Donald and Clare's work in Oxfordshire also became well-known across Great Britain; besides their aforementioned 1944 publication, their paper on the Oxfordshire "scheme" was the lead article in the first issue of Human Relations, an interdisciplinary journal published by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (Winnicott and Britton, 1947).
As Donald commented, he had "avoided the immensely exacting organised antisocial case during the early stages of my career, but in the war became forced to consider this type of disorder through the work I was privileged to do with evacuated children in Oxfordshire" (1988, p.
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 ETHICAL DILEMMAS OF THE PSYCHO-ANALYTICAL BIOGRAPHER:THE CASE OF DONALD WINNICOTT.
An edited book of essays on Winnicott, which will include personal reminiscences of the great child analyst, as well as a transcript of Paul Roazen's hitherto unpublished interview with Winnicott, conducted more than thirty years ago, in 1965, will be published by Karnac Books of London in the latter part of 1998.
For instance, one of Winnicott’s associates told me a story that on a certain occasion, Winnicott felt very sleepy in the middle of a psycho-analytical session, and he asked his patient to trade places, so that Winnicott ended up lying on the couch, and the patient had to sit in Winnicott’s chair.
Any portrait of Winnicott that withheld such aspects of his life would be both corrupt and incomplete; and yet, a book which communicated such data might be felt to be offensive or hurtful to those who knew healthier areas of Winnicott's life, and who wish to remember him that way.
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 LRB | letters from Vol. 26 No. 7   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Winnicott's apparent lack of success in engaging Khan's rage and destructiveness may have been influenced by his denied disillusionment with his own father and his analysts, James Strachey and Joan Riviere.
In his biography of Winnicott, Robert Rodman contrasts Winnicott's ruthless independence as a psychoanalytic theorist with his view of the analyst as a 'good enough mother' who allows himself to be used subjectively in order to facilitate growth in the patient.
Khan's private disappointment with Winnicott as an analyst was not echoed by his public idealisation of Winnicott as a theorist and a non-intrusive maternal presence.
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 Comments on Face te Face with Children [Pearl King]
I thus knew Clare Winnicott before I met Donald Winnicott, when she was assimilating her experiences in Oxfordshire with Donald.
This was when I saw Donald and Clare operating together, playing and sparking each other off, until Donald withdrew from our discussions, and I heard him playing his piano in another room, I thought he was in their kitchen.
During the years that followed, I had much to do with Donald, but little contact with Clare, who had started in 1954, to train as a psychoanalyst with Melanie Klein as her Training Analyst and was qualified in 1960 shortly before Melanie Klein died.
www.psychanalyse.lu /articles/CR-KingClareWinnicott.htm   (1446 words)

  
 : Donald W. Winnicott, 1896—1971 -- 155 (3): 421 -- American Journal of Psychiatry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
On April 7, 1896, Donald Woods Winnicott was born in Plymouth,
Theory, for Winnicott, was useful to the extent that
Mark Paterson and Associates on behalf of The Winnicott Trust.
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Indeed, Donald Winnicott was kind enough to say of Melanie Klein - even though they had fallen out - that her concept of reparation in the depressive position was as important to psychoanalysis as the Oedipus complex.
Although Winnicott's rejection of the death instinct led him to underplay this, the depressive position is in perpetual dynamic interplay with the paranoid-schizoid position, which comes first developmentally, and projective identification, along with splitting, is the central unconscious mental process involved.
The concept he was honouring was, for her, part of a dynamically interrelated set of ideas in which projective identification was crucial.
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 Psyche Matters: Donald W Winnicott Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Winnicott, D.W. Clinical Notes on the Disorders of Childhood.
Benjamin, J. Reply to Burack on Donald Winnicott and social theory.., Psychoanal.
Winnicott "The emphasis on mothering, work with psychotics and children, and the relevance of Winnicott for today" A web site devoted to D W Winnicott
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 Book review: Recreating Jane Austen by Brian Wiltshire
The interdependence of an individual (be they author or a character within an Austen novel) and a group is best expressed in the mother/child relationship, where society is represented by the mother who sustains the infant’s emotional life, moderating its violent and destructive impulses.
Once again, this is tied to a reading of Winnicott which leads Wiltshire to define the influence of one author on another in the mother/child/milk/solid food relationships.
Donald Winnicott, whose theories Wiltshire uses to expound and classify processes of recreating Austen, is less accessible.
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 Welcome to The Winnicott Foundation - neo natal baby charity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Their care and their survival depends on the skill of the Winnicott’s doctors, nurses and developmental team, the high tech equipment and the love and presence of their parents.
The Winnicott Foundation aims to help ensure that this is available, through helping to provide the support, equipment and training that medical staff, babies and families need.
Over the coming months this new website will bring you more information about the work of the Winnicott Foundation, the Winnicott Baby Unit and Developmental Care work that it supports, and the babies whose lives depend on this work.
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 Mental Help Net
Donald Woods Winnicott was born in 1896 in Plymouth, Devon, a stronghold of the noncomformist Weslyan tradition.
Winnicott's independence of mind can best be appreciated against the background of controversy that had been a part of the history of psychoanalysis from its beginnings and then took a particular turn in the British  Society in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Winnicott's personal drama and his doctrinally contributions to the modern psychoanalysis are two poles of Rodman' discourse.  And there is a good balance between them...
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 artnet Magazine - Features - Shameless and Unashamed
Freud’s remark reminds me of Winnicott’s observation that we are "able, so to speak, to flirt with psychosis," so long as we see the humor in it, for humor is a mature defense against the immaturity of insanity, whether our own or society’s.
Winnicott thought that modern art flirted with psychosis, sometimes without the humor.
DONALD KUSPIT is professor of art history and philosophy at SUNY Stony Brook and A.D. White professor at large at Cornell University.
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 May 5, 2004 Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A distinguished array of presenters from across the U.S. and England came together at the GWSCSW conference on May 1, 2004, to examine the contributions of Clare and Donald Winnicott to social work practice.
Plenary sessions with a historical focus, as well as breakout sessions addressing such contemporary topics as corrections, gender confusion, cross-cultural treatment, group treatment of adolescent mothers, and case management of severe mental illness, were featured.
Winnicott’s Potential Spaces: Using Psychoanalytic Theory to Redress the Crises of Postmodern Culture: http://www.psychematters.com/papers/szollosy.htm
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 School of Social Service Administration | The University of Chicago
Donald W. Winnicott has emerged as one of the most influential thinkers in contemporary psychoanalysis, over the last decade, and his developmental theories and clinical perspectives have deepened our understanding of essential concerns in psychotherapy and social work.
Winnicott elaborated complex and compelling accounts of human development and therapeutic intervention, over the course of his career as a pediatrician and psychoanalyst, but he did not codify his ideas in a systematic, integrative fashion.
Winnicott's approach to brief treatment and methods of therapeutic consultation are reviewed as well.
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 Metapsychology Online Reviews - André Green at the Squiggle Foundation
Green then reveals how Winnicott shows aggression to be not the bedrock of experience but a developmental achievement, as an object is only capable of manipulation or destruction if it is seen as apart from the self.
Green continues early discussions of the role of the father in development by citing Winnicott's assertion that castration anxiety is a “blessing,” in that it moves the child to separation and the possible future reunification through intercourse with a mother substitute.
Green begins by describing Winnicott’s concept of transitional objects and transitional space as a “journey toward experience,” paving the way to showing how Winnicott’s theories anticipate his own in relation to the positive and negative aspects of the Negative.
mentalhelp.net /books/books.php?type=de&id=1167   (1767 words)

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