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Routledge
204 Pages
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Routledge
204 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in 1990. The ideas of Donald Winnicott are scattered through numerous clinical papers and short, popular expositions. He made only one attempt to write and overview of his ideas, and this is it. It remained unfinished at his death in 1971. It is an ambitious work. The chapters offer his perspective on most of the main issues in psychoanalytic theory - for example,... Read more
Introduction; I: The Human Child Examined: Soma, Psyche, Mind; Introduction; 1: The Psyche-Soma and the Mind; 2: Ill-Health; 3: Inter-Relationship of Body Disease and Psychological Disorder; 4: The Psycho-Somatic Field; II: The Emotional Development of the Human Being; Introduction; 1: Interpersonal Relationships; 2: The Concept of Health Using Instinct Theory; III: Establishment of Unit Status; Introduction; 1: The Depressive Position; 2: Development of the Theme of the Inner World; 3: Various Types of Psycho-Therapy Material; 4: Hypochondriacal Anxiety; IV: From Instinct Theory to EGO Theory; Introduction: Primitive Emotional Development; 1: Establishment of Relationship with External Reality; 2: Integration; 3: Dwelling of Psyche in Body; 4: The Earliest States; 5: Primary State of Being: Pre-Primitive Stages; 6: Chaos; 7: The Intellectual Function; 8: Withdrawal and Regression; 9: The Birth Experience; 10: Environment; 11: Psycho-Somatic Disorder Reconsidered
Biography
Donald Woods Winnicott (1896-1971) was one of Britain's foremost pediatricians and psychoanalysts. He studied at the Leys School and at Jesus College, both in Cambridge, before training as a physician at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London.
