
Childhood Psychosis
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 3, 1946-1951
In this essay, Winnicott emphasises that, in the study of a psychotic child, paediatrics and psychology tend to part company and that it is only by comparing the emotional development of ...
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Models of the Core Features of Borderline Personality Disorder
Mary C. Zanarini
in In the Fullness of Time: Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
This chapter details three theories of the core features of BPD. Linehan has emphasized emotion dysregulation, while Gunderson has focused on problematic attachment. Zanarini has offered a ...
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History-Taking
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 1, 1911-1938
Chapter 1 of Clinical Notes on Disorders of Childhood. In this chapter, Winnicott argues for the importance of history taking in child medicine: the past history of the child, the family ...
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A Note on Temperature and the Importance of Charts
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 1, 1911-1938
Chapter 3 of Clinical Notes on Disorders of Childhood. In this chapter, Winnicott discusses the importance of using charts to take temperatures to measure variations over time of a child’s ...
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The Rheumatic Clinic
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 1, 1911-1938
Chapter 7 of Clinical Notes on Disorders of Childhood. In this chapter, Winnicott notes that attempts to prevent heart disease by identifying and treating rheumatic children in a clinic ...
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Review: Childhood and Society: By Erik H. Erikson (London: Hogarth, 1965)
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 7, 1964 - 1966
Winnicott’s positive review of the paperback edition of Erikson’s Childhood and Society. ...

Physical Examination
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 1, 1911-1938
Chapter 2 of Clinical Notes on Disorders of Childhood. In this chapter, Winnicott discuses the conditions that pertain for the physician at an out-patient department in conducting physical ...
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The Nose and Throat
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 1, 1911-1938
Chapter 4 of Clinical Notes on Disorders of Childhood. In this chapter, Winnicott discusses treatment for adenoids and tonsils complaints, noting the craze for removal of the septic foci in ...
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Rheumatic Fever
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 1, 1911-1938
Chapter 6 of Clinical Notes on Disorders of Childhood. In this chapter, Winnicott introduces the nature and chief manifestations of rheumatic fever He contends that but for the possible ...
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Growing Pains
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 1, 1911-1938
Chapter 9 of Clinical Notes on Disorders of Childhood. In this chapter, Winnicott restates his belief that growing pains are not rheumatic and quotes a range of other medical authorities ...
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Convulsions, Fits
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 1, 1911-1938
Chapter 17 of Clinical Notes on Disorders of Childhood. In this chapter, Winnicott discusses the common occurrences of convulsions and fits in infants, using case histories to consider ...
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Masturbation
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 1, 1911-1938
Chapter 19 of Clinical Notes on Disorders of Childhood. In this chapter, Winnicott states that an objective attitude towards masturbation is practically impossible in discussions between ...
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Speech Disorders
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 1, 1911-1938
Chapter 20 of Clinical Notes on Disorders of Childhood. In this chapter, Winnicott comments on the value of speech to the child and discusses cases of stuttering, incessant talking and ...
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The Foundation of Mental Health
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 3, 1946-1951
In this essay, Winnicott discusses the World Health Organisation’s Expert Committee on Mental Health and its focus on infancy and childhood as the foundation of adult mental health. The ...
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The Heart, with Special Reference to Rheumatic Carditis
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 1, 1911-1938
Chapter 5 of Clinical Notes on Disorders of Childhood. In this chapter Winnicott describes the extremely difficult problem of diagnosis of active rheumatic carditis, along with a ...
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Arthritis Associated with Emotional Disturbance
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 1, 1911-1938
Chapter 10 of Clinical Notes on Disorders of Childhood. In this chapter, Winnicott reminds the clinician to hold in mind the possibility of a form of joint swelling similar to that of true ...
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Mental Defect
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 1, 1911-1938
Chapter 16 of Clinical Notes on Disorders of Childhood. In this chapter, Winnicott discuses mental defect from an anatomical point of view with regard to the child’s attainments, from the ...
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Developmental Variations in the Prevalence and Manifestation of Anxiety Disorders
Danielle D. Weiss and Cynthia G. Last
in The Developmental Psychopathology of Anxiety
This chapter provides a comprehensive, integrative review ofcurrent research on the manifestation and prevalence of anxiety disordersthroughout childhood and across genders. It discusses ...
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Neural Findings in Pediatric Irritability
Emily Hirsch and Leslie Hulvershorn
in Irritability in Pediatric Psychopathology
Irritability has been conceptualized as a clinical phenomenon that cuts across various psychiatric disorders. Moreover, it is one of the most common reasons that children and adolescents ...
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Parents’ Insightfulness: The Importance of Keeping the Inner World of the Child in Mind for Parenting Plan Evaluations
David Oppenheim and Nina Koren-Karie
in Parenting Plan Evaluations: Applied Research for the Family Court (2 edn)
A central aspect of parental functioning that may have great importance for parenting plan evaluations and has received considerable research attention recently is parental ...
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