- 1 Letter to Anna M. Kulka
- 2 Letter to Charles Rycroft
- 3 Letter to Thomas Main
- 4 Address Introducing Margaret Mead, VIIIth Ernest Jones Lecture
- 5 Letter to Margaret Mead
- 6 Letter to Thomas Main
- 7 Letter to Melanie Klein
- 8 Remarks on a Discussion of Balint’s Paper on Technique
- 9 Letter to Michael Balint
- 10 Letter to Michael Balint
- 11 Letter to Tsuicheu Cheu
- 12 Letter to <i>The Times</i>
- 13 Letter to Martin James
- 14 Review: <i>Six Children</i>
- 15 The Contribution of Psycho-Analysis to Midwifery
- 16 Letter to Mary Applebey
- 17 Foreword to <i>The Case as the Patient Sees It: Psychoanalysis</i>
- 18 Letter to Joan Riviere
- 19 Letter to Prunella Briance
- 20 The Capacity to Be Alone
- 21 On the Contribution of Direct Child Observation to Psycho-Analysis
- 22 Letter to Augusta Bonnard
- 23 Hallucination and Dehallucination
- 24 Letter to Michael Balint
- 25 Letter to Francesca Bion
- 26 Integrative and Disruptive Factors in Family Life
- 27 Advising Parents
- 28 Letter to Augusta Bonnard
- 29 Excitement in the Aetiology of Coronary Thrombosis
- 30 The Mother’s Contribution to Society
- 31 Health Education Through Broadcasting
- 32 Preface to <i>Collected Papers: Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis</i>
(p. 287) Excitement in the Aetiology of Coronary Thrombosis
- Chapter:
- (p. 287) Excitement in the Aetiology of Coronary Thrombosis
- Author(s):
Donald W. Winnicott
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med:psych/9780190271374.003.0069
Winnicott’s notes for a lecture. In a survey of psycho-somatic disorder, coronary thrombosis provides a good example of it but there is still the question of physiology. The common state of affairs in men and women who like to link their instinctual experiences with the enrichment of relationships is that many excitements must remain unrequited, and must find a way of dying down. Here Winnicott considers the physiology of such a psycho-somatic disorder as coronary thrombosis.
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- 1 Letter to Anna M. Kulka
- 2 Letter to Charles Rycroft
- 3 Letter to Thomas Main
- 4 Address Introducing Margaret Mead, VIIIth Ernest Jones Lecture
- 5 Letter to Margaret Mead
- 6 Letter to Thomas Main
- 7 Letter to Melanie Klein
- 8 Remarks on a Discussion of Balint’s Paper on Technique
- 9 Letter to Michael Balint
- 10 Letter to Michael Balint
- 11 Letter to Tsuicheu Cheu
- 12 Letter to <i>The Times</i>
- 13 Letter to Martin James
- 14 Review: <i>Six Children</i>
- 15 The Contribution of Psycho-Analysis to Midwifery
- 16 Letter to Mary Applebey
- 17 Foreword to <i>The Case as the Patient Sees It: Psychoanalysis</i>
- 18 Letter to Joan Riviere
- 19 Letter to Prunella Briance
- 20 The Capacity to Be Alone
- 21 On the Contribution of Direct Child Observation to Psycho-Analysis
- 22 Letter to Augusta Bonnard
- 23 Hallucination and Dehallucination
- 24 Letter to Michael Balint
- 25 Letter to Francesca Bion
- 26 Integrative and Disruptive Factors in Family Life
- 27 Advising Parents
- 28 Letter to Augusta Bonnard
- 29 Excitement in the Aetiology of Coronary Thrombosis
- 30 The Mother’s Contribution to Society
- 31 Health Education Through Broadcasting
- 32 Preface to <i>Collected Papers: Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis</i>