Freedom
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 9, 1969 - 1971
In this paper, Winnicott discusses the meaning of freedom in light of the concepts of health and creativity. Winnicott explores psychiatric health in respect of freedom and the general ...
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Introduction to Volume 7
Anna Ferruta
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 7, 1964 - 1966
This volume is characterized by a remarkable variety of topics, unified by the dialectical, often polemical quality with which the various issues are treated, and by the courageous ...
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The First Year of Life: Modern Views on the Emotional Development
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 5, 1955-1959
Winnicott makes a short study of the first year of life for the infant, in particular his emotional development. He considers that the emotional dependence of the infant, on the mother at ...
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Development of the Theme of the Mother’s Unconscious as Discovered in Psycho-Analytic Practice
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 9, 1969 - 1971
In this follow up to Winnicott’s two earlier papers on the depressive position (1954), and the mother’s defence against depression (1948), Winnicott makes a further comment on analysis of ...
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Why Children Play
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 2, 1939-1945
In this essay, Winnicott holds that children enjoy all physical and emotional play experiences. To some extent this is dealt with at the source, by the child’s accepting the discipline of ...
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Communication Between Infant and Mother, and Mother and Infant, Compared and Contrasted
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 8, 1967 - 1968
Winnicott summarises the conscious and unconscious to and fro between a mother and her baby who has as yet no separate conscious and unconscious. The baby, he writes, communicates ...
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Letter to The Times: George III
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 7, 1964 - 1966
Winnicott’s letter to The Times on King George III’s mental illness and Robert Graves’s views on poetry and psychoanalysis. ...
Creativity and schizotypy
J. H. Brod
in Schizotypy: Implications for Illness and Health
This chapter discusses creativity and schizotypy. It explores the possibility that madness underlies creativity, how psychosis is linked to creativity, and evidence for this link, as well ...
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Introduction to Volume 9
Arne Jemstedt
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 9, 1969 - 1971
In the Introduction to Volume 9, covering the period of the end of Winnicott’s life, the themes of creativity, creative living, and the paper ‘The Use of an Object’ are discussed at length, ...
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Letter to Roger Money-Kyrle
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 5, 1955-1959
A letter from Winnicott to Money-Kyrle in which he expresses his pleasure that Money-Kyrle is considering a paper on the child creating the world. Winnicott says that he regrets the ...
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Playing: Creative Activity and the Search for the Self
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 8, 1967 - 1968
In this paper, Winnicott proposes that only in the act of playing is the adult or child free to be creative. The paradox at the heart of his paper on Transitional Objects and Phenomena—that ...
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The Concept of a Healthy Individual
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 8, 1967 - 1968
In this talk to the Royal Medico-Psychological Association, Psychotherapy and Social Psychiatry Section Winnicott proposes that society cannot get further than the common denominator of ...
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Playing and Culture
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 8, 1967 - 1968
In this paper, Winnicott addresses the fact that in psychoanalysis no place has been given to understanding how human beings have evolved and created numerous cultural artefacts alongside ...
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Do Progressive Schools Give Too Much Freedom to the Child?
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 7, 1964 - 1966
Winnicott looks at progressive schools in terms of their work with ill children and, sometimes, ill parents. For Winnicott, the diagnosis of children as healthy or maladjusted or deprived ...
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Aggression, Guilt and Reparation
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 6, 1960-1963
In this talk, Winnicott discusses the roots of constructive activity in analytic work and looks at the relationship of construction to destruction in this work. He acknowledges Melanie ...
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Communicating and Not Communicating Leading to a Study of Certain Opposites
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 6, 1960-1963
In this paper, Winnicott proposes that at the centre of each individual is an area not to be exploited or invaded in analysis and in ordinary life. He writes that there is a right not to ...
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Schizotypy: Implications for Illness and Health
Gordon Claridge (ed.)
The central theme of this title presents a challenging and controversial view of psychosis-that the features of psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia actually lie on a continuum with, ...
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Living Creatively
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 9, 1969 - 1971
In this paper, Winnicott argues for the importance of a creative life. He defines creativity as ‘the doing that arises out of being’. He also discusses creativity in marriage, dependence ...
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Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 9, 1969 - 1971
In this paper, Winnicott describes the interstices between illusion and reality and their importance in emotional development. He discusses in detail the use of transitional objects by the ...
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Creativity and Its Origins
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 9, 1969 - 1971
In this paper, Winnicott discusses the origins of creativity, stating that creative apperception more than anything else is what makes the individual feel that life is worth living. He ...
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