- 1 Letter to Grantly Dick-Read
- 2 Letter to Marianne Baumann
- 3 Funeral Address for Ernest Jones
- 4 Psychogenesis of a Beating Fantasy
- 5 Review: <i>The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child</i>, Volume 11
- 6 The First Year of Life
- 7 The Psychology of Separation
- 8 Letter to Anna Freud
- 9 Where Angels Fear to Tread, Or A Comment on Generic Teaching
- 10 Letter to Marianne Baumann
- 11 Letter to Anna Freud
- 12 Letter to Joan Riviere
- 13 Child Analysis in the Latency Period
- 14 Letter to R. D. Laing
- 15 Review: <i>The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, Volume 12</i>
- 16 Letter to Herbert Rosenfeld
- 17 The Family Affected by Depressive Illness in One or Both Parents
- 18 On ‘Separation Anxiety’
- 19 Letter to Anna Freud
- 20 Letter to Victor Smirnoff
- 21 Obituary: Ernest Jones
- 22 Obituary: Dr Ambrose Cyril Wilson
- 23 Review: <i>The Doctor, His Patient and the Illness</i>
- 24 Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena
- 25 Theoretical Statement of the Field of Child Psychiatry
(p. 333) The Psychology of Separation
- Chapter:
- (p. 333) The Psychology of Separation
- Author(s):
Donald W. Winnicott
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med:psych/9780190271374.003.0079
In this essay, Winnicott discusses the effects of the separation of infants and small children from their parents in terms of clinical findings, in particular the relationship between the antisocial tendency and deprivation. He discusses the history of the psychology of reaction to loss and emphasises that illness results not from loss itself but from the occurrence of loss at a stage in the child’s or infant’s emotional development when a mature reaction to loss cannot take place, a time at which the immature ego cannot mourn.
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- 1 Letter to Grantly Dick-Read
- 2 Letter to Marianne Baumann
- 3 Funeral Address for Ernest Jones
- 4 Psychogenesis of a Beating Fantasy
- 5 Review: <i>The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child</i>, Volume 11
- 6 The First Year of Life
- 7 The Psychology of Separation
- 8 Letter to Anna Freud
- 9 Where Angels Fear to Tread, Or A Comment on Generic Teaching
- 10 Letter to Marianne Baumann
- 11 Letter to Anna Freud
- 12 Letter to Joan Riviere
- 13 Child Analysis in the Latency Period
- 14 Letter to R. D. Laing
- 15 Review: <i>The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, Volume 12</i>
- 16 Letter to Herbert Rosenfeld
- 17 The Family Affected by Depressive Illness in One or Both Parents
- 18 On ‘Separation Anxiety’
- 19 Letter to Anna Freud
- 20 Letter to Victor Smirnoff
- 21 Obituary: Ernest Jones
- 22 Obituary: Dr Ambrose Cyril Wilson
- 23 Review: <i>The Doctor, His Patient and the Illness</i>
- 24 Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena
- 25 Theoretical Statement of the Field of Child Psychiatry