- 1 Saying ‘No’
- 2 Letter to Michael Balint
- 3 Letter to Jacques Lacan
- 4 Jealousy
- 5 Letter to Merton J. Kahne
- 6 The Effect of Psychosis on Family Life
- 7 What Irks?
- 8 The Relationship of a Mother to Her Baby at the Beginning
- 9 On Security
- 10 Aggression, Guilt and Reparation
- 11 Letter to Alexander Luria
- 12 Letter to Ilse Hellman
- 13 Letter to John Harvard-Watts
- 14 Letter to Mr and Mrs Young
- 15 Obituary: Melanie Klein
- 16 Letter to Serge Lebovici
- 17 The Family and Emotional Maturity
- 18 Letter to Wilfred Bion
- 19 Comments on Joseph Sandler’s ‘On the Concept of the Superego’
- 20 String: A Technique of Communication
- 21 The Theory of the Parent-Infant Relationship
- 22 Ego Distortion in Terms of True and False Self
(p. 93) On Security
- Chapter:
- (p. 93) On Security
- Author(s):
Donald W. Winnicott
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med:psych/9780190271381.003.0010
In this essay, Winnicott emphasizes the importance of security to the developing child, but warns parents against overprotectiveness. He believes that from this sense of security arises both self-control and a sense of responsibility in the adolescent who will want to go on to provide a similar environment of security for his or her own child.
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- 1 Saying ‘No’
- 2 Letter to Michael Balint
- 3 Letter to Jacques Lacan
- 4 Jealousy
- 5 Letter to Merton J. Kahne
- 6 The Effect of Psychosis on Family Life
- 7 What Irks?
- 8 The Relationship of a Mother to Her Baby at the Beginning
- 9 On Security
- 10 Aggression, Guilt and Reparation
- 11 Letter to Alexander Luria
- 12 Letter to Ilse Hellman
- 13 Letter to John Harvard-Watts
- 14 Letter to Mr and Mrs Young
- 15 Obituary: Melanie Klein
- 16 Letter to Serge Lebovici
- 17 The Family and Emotional Maturity
- 18 Letter to Wilfred Bion
- 19 Comments on Joseph Sandler’s ‘On the Concept of the Superego’
- 20 String: A Technique of Communication
- 21 The Theory of the Parent-Infant Relationship
- 22 Ego Distortion in Terms of True and False Self