- Frontispiece
- Editors’ Note
- Introduction to Volume 2
- 1 Letter to the <i>British Medical Journal</i>
- 2 Letter to the British Medical Journal
- 3 The Delinquent and Habitual Offender
- 4 The Deprived Mother
- 5 Early Disillusion
- 6 Letter to the <i>British Medical Journal</i>
- 7 The Psychology of Juvenile Rheumatism
- 8 Aggression
- 9 Delinquency: Continued
- 1 Letter to Kate Friedlander
- 2 Children and Their Mothers
- 3 Discussion of War Aims
- 4 Children in the War
- 1 Report on Q Camps
- 2 Letter to the <i>British Medical Journal</i>
- 3 On Influencing and Being Influenced
- 4 Review: <i>The Moral Paradox of Peace and War</i>
- 5 Review: The Cambridge Evacuation Survey: A Wartime Study in Social Welfare and Education
- 6 The Observation of Infants in a Set Situation
- 7 Meet to be Stolen From
- 1 Resolution K: On Scientific Aims in Psychoanalysis
- 2 Child Department Consultations
- 3 Letter to the <i>British Medical Journal</i>
- 4 Why Children Play
- 5 Review: <i>The Nursing Couple</i>
- 1 A Doctor Looks at the Psychiatric Social Worker
- 2 Delinquency Research
- 3 Memorandum on ‘The Relationship Between Clinical Paediatrics and Child Psychology’
- 4 Letter to <i>The Lancet</i>
- 5 Letter to <i>The Lancet</i>
- 6 Treatment of Mental Disease by Induction of Fits
- 7 Letter to the <i>British Medical Journal</i>
- 8 Getting to Know Your Baby
- 9 The Wearing of Masks in the Nursing of Premature and Older Infants (abstract)
- 10 Letter to the <i>British Medical Journal</i>
- 1 Letter to Roger North
- 2 Why Do Babies Cry?
- 3 Psychological Aspects of Birching
- 4 Letter to the <i>British Medical Journal</i>
- 5 A Tendency in Therapeutics
- 6 Introduction to a Symposium on the Psycho-Analytic Contribution to the Theory of Shock Therapy
- 7 Kinds of Psychological Effect of Shock Therapy
- 8 What About Father?
- 9 Their Standards and Yours
- 10 What Do We Mean by a Normal Child?
- 11 Support for Normal Parents
- 12 Letter to Dr Marjorie Franklin
- 13 Infant Feeding
- 14 The Problem of Homeless Children with Clare Britton
- 15 Ocular Psychoneuroses of Childhood
- 1 The Only Child
- 2 The Evacuated Child
- 3 The Return of the Evacuated Child
- 4 Thinking and the Unconscious
- 5 Twins
- 6 Memorandum on Corporal Punishment
- 7 Home Again
- 8 Primitive Emotional Development
- 9 Evidence Given to the Home Office Committee on Children’s Homes
- 10 Letter to the <i>British Medical Journal</i>
- 11 Towards an Objective Study of Human Nature
- 12 Breast Feeding
- Chronology
- References
- Contributors
- Credits
- Index
(p. 35) The Deprived Mother
- Chapter:
- (p. 35) The Deprived Mother
- Author(s):
Donald W. Winnicott
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med:psych/9780190271343.003.0004
In this essay, Winnicott tries to show that when a child is taken from parents the very strongest feelings are aroused. Those concerned with the problems of the evacuation of children must see the mothers’ problems as well as those of the foster-mothers if they are to understand what they are doing. Winnicott contends that to look after children may be hard and exacting work and can feel like a war job. But to be deprived of one’s children is a poor kind of war work, one that appeals to hardly any mother or father and one that can only be tolerated if its unhappy side is duly appreciated. For this reason, it is necessary really to make the effort to find out what it feels like to be a mother stranded without her child.
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- Frontispiece
- Editors’ Note
- Introduction to Volume 2
- 1 Letter to the <i>British Medical Journal</i>
- 2 Letter to the British Medical Journal
- 3 The Delinquent and Habitual Offender
- 4 The Deprived Mother
- 5 Early Disillusion
- 6 Letter to the <i>British Medical Journal</i>
- 7 The Psychology of Juvenile Rheumatism
- 8 Aggression
- 9 Delinquency: Continued
- 1 Letter to Kate Friedlander
- 2 Children and Their Mothers
- 3 Discussion of War Aims
- 4 Children in the War
- 1 Report on Q Camps
- 2 Letter to the <i>British Medical Journal</i>
- 3 On Influencing and Being Influenced
- 4 Review: <i>The Moral Paradox of Peace and War</i>
- 5 Review: The Cambridge Evacuation Survey: A Wartime Study in Social Welfare and Education
- 6 The Observation of Infants in a Set Situation
- 7 Meet to be Stolen From
- 1 Resolution K: On Scientific Aims in Psychoanalysis
- 2 Child Department Consultations
- 3 Letter to the <i>British Medical Journal</i>
- 4 Why Children Play
- 5 Review: <i>The Nursing Couple</i>
- 1 A Doctor Looks at the Psychiatric Social Worker
- 2 Delinquency Research
- 3 Memorandum on ‘The Relationship Between Clinical Paediatrics and Child Psychology’
- 4 Letter to <i>The Lancet</i>
- 5 Letter to <i>The Lancet</i>
- 6 Treatment of Mental Disease by Induction of Fits
- 7 Letter to the <i>British Medical Journal</i>
- 8 Getting to Know Your Baby
- 9 The Wearing of Masks in the Nursing of Premature and Older Infants (abstract)
- 10 Letter to the <i>British Medical Journal</i>
- 1 Letter to Roger North
- 2 Why Do Babies Cry?
- 3 Psychological Aspects of Birching
- 4 Letter to the <i>British Medical Journal</i>
- 5 A Tendency in Therapeutics
- 6 Introduction to a Symposium on the Psycho-Analytic Contribution to the Theory of Shock Therapy
- 7 Kinds of Psychological Effect of Shock Therapy
- 8 What About Father?
- 9 Their Standards and Yours
- 10 What Do We Mean by a Normal Child?
- 11 Support for Normal Parents
- 12 Letter to Dr Marjorie Franklin
- 13 Infant Feeding
- 14 The Problem of Homeless Children with Clare Britton
- 15 Ocular Psychoneuroses of Childhood
- 1 The Only Child
- 2 The Evacuated Child
- 3 The Return of the Evacuated Child
- 4 Thinking and the Unconscious
- 5 Twins
- 6 Memorandum on Corporal Punishment
- 7 Home Again
- 8 Primitive Emotional Development
- 9 Evidence Given to the Home Office Committee on Children’s Homes
- 10 Letter to the <i>British Medical Journal</i>
- 11 Towards an Objective Study of Human Nature
- 12 Breast Feeding
- Chronology
- References
- Contributors
- Credits
- Index