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Letter to Kenneth Soddy
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 5, 1955-1959
In this letter to Kenneth Soddy, Winnicott discusses the terms ‘maturation at age’ and ‘maturity at age’ as they were used at the Copenhagen congress. Winnicott directs Soddy to his paper ...
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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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Human life history
Martin Brüne
in Textbook of Evolutionary Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine: The Origins of Psychopathology (2 ed.)
Human life-history patterns are characterized by slow maturation, long parental dependency, longevity, and low number of offspring. These developmental peculiarities determine the amount of ...
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Introduction to The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 7, 1964 - 1966
Winnicott’s introduction to his collection of essays The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment summarises the book’s main themes: a carrying back of the application of ...
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The Theory of the Parent-Infant Relationship: Further Remarks
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 6, 1960-1963
In these further remarks on the parent-infant relationship, on which he and Phyllis Greenacre had given Congress papers, Winnicott endorses Greenacre’s work on maturation and links it to ...
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The Mentally Ill in Your Caseload
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 6, 1960-1963
In this talk delivered to social workers, Winnicott brings his understanding of professional psychiatry, with its attempts to treat severe mental illness using a more humane approach, ...
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Hospital Care Supplementing Intensive Psychotherapy in Adolescence
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 6, 1960-1963
In this talk to the McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, on the opening of new facilities for the care of psychiatrically ill adolescents, Winnicott describes some characteristics of ...
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Contextual adult lifespan theory for adapting psychotherapy
Bob G. Knight and Lewina O. Lee
in Handbook of Emotional Disorders in Later Life: Assessment and Treatment
This chapter discusses the Contextual Adult Lifespan Theory for Adapting Psychotherapy (CALTAP). It considers cohort effects, cultural adaptations, context, maturation (negative and ...
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The human brain: anatomy, evolution, and function
Martin Brüne
in Textbook of Evolutionary Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine: The Origins of Psychopathology (2 ed.)
The human brain is the most complex organ that has ever evolved. It contains more neurons and synapses than any other primate brain. In relation to body weight, it is outstandingly large ...
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Introduction to Volume 3: Sowing Creative Seeds for Future Clinical Development
Vincenzo Bonaminio and Paolo Fabozzi
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 3, 1946-1951
The Introduction to Volume 3 covers the growth of Winnicott’s important clinical contributions to psychoanalysis, in particular the paper ‘Hate In the Counter Transference’, whose use of ...
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Introduction to Volume 10
Marco Armellini
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 10, Therapeutic Consultations in Child Psychiatry
In the Introduction to Volume 10 (Therapeutic Consultations in Child Psychiatry), Winnicott’s collection of child and adolescent consultations in child psychiatry, prepared before his ...
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Older Adults and Terrorism
Lisa M. Brown, Donna Cohen, and Joy R. Kohlmaier
in Psychology of Terrorism
Chapter 20 explores the effects of terrorism on older adults. This includes the effects of natural and human-made disasters on older adults (theoretical frameworks, psychological responses, ...
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