- Frontispiece
- Editors’ Note
- Introduction to Volume 11
- Preface
- Editorial Note
- Acknowledgement
- Introduction
- 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. 139) Dwelling of Psyche in Body
- Chapter:
- (p. 139) Dwelling of Psyche in Body
- Author(s):
Donald W. Winnicott
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med:psych/9780190271435.003.0022
In this chapter, Winnicott describes the dwelling of the psyche within the body as a process to be achieved. He describes a variety of body experiences and how body and psyche interrelate, and also how external factors impede or assist this relationship. The sources of paranoia are seen by Winnicott as an expectation of persecution by the psyche-soma partnership if things do not go well. In addition, a naïve dependence on all going exactly as needed by the self can lead to vulnerability. The normal position between such extremes depends on sufficient care for the growing self, eventually leading to self-care and independence.
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- Frontispiece
- Editors’ Note
- Introduction to Volume 11
- Preface
- Editorial Note
- Acknowledgement
- Introduction
- 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