- 1 Letter to Lydia James
- 2 Letter to Sir Aubrey Lewis
- 3 Memorandum on Organizational Aspects of Child Care at Paddington Green Children’s Hospital (Psychology Department)
- 4 Adolescence: Struggling Through the Doldrums
- 5 Varieties of Psychotherapy
- 6 Feeling Guilty
- 7 Letter to Dr Joan FitzHerbert
- 8 Review: <i>The Concept of Love in Child Care</i>
- 9 Psychoanalysis and Science: Friends or Relations?
- 10 Review: <i>Clinical Child Psychiatry</i>
- 11 Notes on the Time Factor in Treatment
- 12 Comments on ‘Problems of Research in Psycho-Analysis’
- 13 Letter to Masud Khan
- 14 Letter to Pearl King
- 15 Matti, <i>aet</i> 12½ Years: A Therapeutic Consultation
- 16 Sakari: A Therapeutic Consultation
- 17 Psycho-Neurosis in Childhood
- 18 Letter to Harry Guntrip
- 19 The Paediatric Department of Psychology
- 20 Letter to Sir Aubrey Lewis
- 21 Envy: A Male Patient Near the End of His Analysis
- 22 Comments on the Report of the Committee on Punishment in Prisons and Borstals
- 23 Letter to Wilfred Bion
(p. 205) Feeling Guilty
- Chapter:
- (p. 205) Feeling Guilty
- Author(s):
Donald W. Winnicott
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med:psych/9780190271381.003.0029
This radio talk records a conversation between Winnicott and Clare Raynor, a writer and broadcaster on child care and health, on the propensity of mothers to experience many guilt feelings around their children. They discuss the issue of one parent feeling jealous of the rival parent for the child’s love, an ageing mother feeling jealous as her young daughter starts her life, fears of the possible abnormality of the newborn and much more. Winnicott conveys how normal and common these feelings of anxiety and guilt are.
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- 1 Letter to Lydia James
- 2 Letter to Sir Aubrey Lewis
- 3 Memorandum on Organizational Aspects of Child Care at Paddington Green Children’s Hospital (Psychology Department)
- 4 Adolescence: Struggling Through the Doldrums
- 5 Varieties of Psychotherapy
- 6 Feeling Guilty
- 7 Letter to Dr Joan FitzHerbert
- 8 Review: <i>The Concept of Love in Child Care</i>
- 9 Psychoanalysis and Science: Friends or Relations?
- 10 Review: <i>Clinical Child Psychiatry</i>
- 11 Notes on the Time Factor in Treatment
- 12 Comments on ‘Problems of Research in Psycho-Analysis’
- 13 Letter to Masud Khan
- 14 Letter to Pearl King
- 15 Matti, <i>aet</i> 12½ Years: A Therapeutic Consultation
- 16 Sakari: A Therapeutic Consultation
- 17 Psycho-Neurosis in Childhood
- 18 Letter to Harry Guntrip
- 19 The Paediatric Department of Psychology
- 20 Letter to Sir Aubrey Lewis
- 21 Envy: A Male Patient Near the End of His Analysis
- 22 Comments on the Report of the Committee on Punishment in Prisons and Borstals
- 23 Letter to Wilfred Bion