- Frontispiece
- Editors’ Note
- Introduction to Volume 11
- Preface
- Editorial Note
- Acknowledgement
- Introduction
- Introduction
- 1 The Psyche-Soma and the Mind
- 2 Ill-Health
- 3 Inter-Relationship of Body Disease and Psychological Disorder
- 4 The Psycho-Somatic Field
- Introduction
- 1 Interpersonal Relationships
- 2 The Concept of Health Using Instinct Theory
- Introduction: Emotional Development Characteristic of Infancy
- 1 The Depressive Position
- 2 Development of the Theme of the Inner World
- 3 Various Types of Psycho-Therapy Material
- 4 Hypochondriacal Anxiety
- Introduction: Primitive Emotional Development
- 1 Establishment of Relationship with External Reality
- 2 Integration
- 3 Dwelling of Psyche in Body
- 4 The Earliest States
- 5 A Primary State of Being: Pre-Primitive Stages
- 6 Chaos
- 7 The Intellectual Function
- 8 Withdrawal and Regression
- 9 The Birth Experience
- 10 Environment
- 11 Psycho-somatic Disorder Reconsidered
- Appendix
- Part 2 The Piggle
- Preface
- Editor’s Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 The Patient
- 2 First Consultation
- 3 Second Consultation
- 4 Third Consultation
- 5 Fourth Consultation
- 6 Fifth Consultation
- 7 Sixth Consultation
- 8 Seventh Consultation
- 9 Eighth Consultation
- 10 Ninth Consultation
- 11 Tenth Consultation
- 12 Eleventh Consultation
- 13 Twelfth Consultation
- 14 Thirteenth Consultation
- 15 Fourteenth Consultation
- 16 Fifteenth Consultation
- 17 Sixteenth Consultation
- Afterword By the Parents of the Piggle
- Chronology
- References
- Contributors
- Index
(p. 75) The Concept of Health Using Instinct Theory
- Chapter:
- (p. 75) The Concept of Health Using Instinct Theory
- Author(s):
Donald W. Winnicott
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med:psych/9780190271435.003.0013
In this chapter, Winnicott describes the imaginative elaboration of the body and its functioning, which becomes organised by the growing self into fantasy. From this, the psyche is created with access to conscious and unconscious fantasy, leading on to the development of what we term the soul. He describes quiet and excited states for the child, all relating to his or her responses to instinctual activity and eventually to triangular relationships. He discusses Freud and the Oedipus complex; child, father, and mother relations; childhood and infantile sexuality; and reality, fantasy, and the unconscious for the child.
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- Frontispiece
- Editors’ Note
- Introduction to Volume 11
- Preface
- Editorial Note
- Acknowledgement
- Introduction
- Introduction
- 1 The Psyche-Soma and the Mind
- 2 Ill-Health
- 3 Inter-Relationship of Body Disease and Psychological Disorder
- 4 The Psycho-Somatic Field
- Introduction
- 1 Interpersonal Relationships
- 2 The Concept of Health Using Instinct Theory
- Introduction: Emotional Development Characteristic of Infancy
- 1 The Depressive Position
- 2 Development of the Theme of the Inner World
- 3 Various Types of Psycho-Therapy Material
- 4 Hypochondriacal Anxiety
- Introduction: Primitive Emotional Development
- 1 Establishment of Relationship with External Reality
- 2 Integration
- 3 Dwelling of Psyche in Body
- 4 The Earliest States
- 5 A Primary State of Being: Pre-Primitive Stages
- 6 Chaos
- 7 The Intellectual Function
- 8 Withdrawal and Regression
- 9 The Birth Experience
- 10 Environment
- 11 Psycho-somatic Disorder Reconsidered
- Appendix
- Part 2 The Piggle
- Preface
- Editor’s Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 The Patient
- 2 First Consultation
- 3 Second Consultation
- 4 Third Consultation
- 5 Fourth Consultation
- 6 Fifth Consultation
- 7 Sixth Consultation
- 8 Seventh Consultation
- 9 Eighth Consultation
- 10 Ninth Consultation
- 11 Tenth Consultation
- 12 Eleventh Consultation
- 13 Twelfth Consultation
- 14 Thirteenth Consultation
- 15 Fourteenth Consultation
- 16 Fifteenth Consultation
- 17 Sixteenth Consultation
- Afterword By the Parents of the Piggle
- Chronology
- References
- Contributors
- Index