Donald Winnicott introduced the concept of a "good-enough" mother in 1953 (7) Today, although Winnicott's teachings are explored in psychiatry training programs and practice, his concept does not resonate with many working mothers.
Cohen shares the conviction of the British psychoanalyst
Donald Winnicott that creativity depends on maintaining contact with the "still, silent spot" at the heart of the psyche; withdrawal into solitude, and the benefits this may bring, is one of the themes of his book.
The "she" is both Davey and Ackerman but also "us," or rather anyone who is watching and shares her interest in feminism and psychoanalysis; catches her references to Mary Wollstonecraft,
Donald Winnicott, and Elena Ferrante, and says to themselves: "Yes, that's it, exactly." This is the tremendous subtlety of Davey's work: She scatters the world with her mail and makes long, cinematic missives about her own interior process of reading, writing, and thinking.
She said an influence was Playing and Reality, a 1971 book by British paediatrician and psychoanalyst
Donald Winnicott which, published posthumously in 1971, highlighted the importance of play.
But the guy who came up with the notion of the good-enough mother, a 1950s pediatrician named
Donald Winnicott, who we now both think is THE SHIZZ, said that perfection is not only impossible, but also damaging to a kid.
Chapter 3 reads Cortazar's Hopscotch in the light of two main theoretical sources: philosopher John Dewey, presented here as a forerunner of enactivism, and psychologist
Donald Winnicott, whose writings insist on the importance of play for human development.
The article by pediatrician and psychoanalyst
Donald Winnicott, MD, "Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena--A Study of the First Not-Me Possession," one of the most frequently cited papers in the psychoanalytic literature, addresses this process (Int J Psychoanal.
The first section describes psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic theories: Freudian, Kleinian, and Lacanian psychoanalysis; infant observation; attachment theory and mentalization; the analytic field; intersubjectivity; the theories of
Donald Winnicott and Wilfred Bion; and contemporary European, American, Mexican, and British psychoanalysis.
Donald Winnicott, uno de los autores que mas importancia dio a la diada madre-hijo a lo largo de su obra, planteo que la madre desarrollaria desde los ultimos meses del embarazo la capacidad de ponerse en lugar del bebe, es decir, identificarse con el (17).
Between 1939, through the Blitz, to 1962, English pediatrician/psychoanalyst
Donald Winnicott gave radio talks about the needs and feelings of children.
As a man he became one of a group of psychoanalysts (which included Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and
Donald Winnicott) working out of London's Tavistock Institute during the Second World War years and afterwards.