Top Donald Woods Winnicott Quotes - Quotesmemo.com

Donald Woods Winnicott Biography

Donald Woods Winnicott

Donald Woods Winnicott[a] FRCP (1896–1971) was an English paediatrician and psychoanalyst who was especially influential in the field of object relations theory. He was a leading member of the British Independent Group of the British Psychoanalytical Society, President of the British Psychoanalytical Society twice (1956–1959 and 1965–1968), and a close associate of Marion Milner. He is best known for his ideas on the true self and false self, and the transitional object. He wrote several books, including Playing and Reality, and over 200 papers.

Read about Donald Woods Winnicott in Wikipedia

Random Authors

Donald Woods Winnicott Quotes

Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.

Fear, Happened, Tell

I would rather be the child of a mother who has all the inner conflicts of the human being than be mothered by someone for whom all is easy and smooth, who knows all the answers, and is a stranger to doubt.

Children, Conflicts, Doubt, Easy, Mother, Mothered

Play like dreams serves the function of self realization.

Dream, Function, Like, Philosophy, Self, Serves

The capacity to still feel wonder is essential to the creative process.

Creative, Essential, Essentials, Process, Wonder

Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind.

Aspect, Children, Creativity, Keys, World

The mother gazes at the baby in her arms, and the baby gazes at his mother's face and finds himself therein. . . provided that the mother is really looking at the unique, small, helpless being and not projecting her own expectations, fears, and plans for the child. In that case, the child would find not himself in his mother's face, but rather the mother's own projections. This child would remain without a mirror, and for the rest of his life would be seeking this mirror in vain.

Baby, Children, Expectations, Mother, Projecting, Provided

There is no such thing as a baby, there is a baby and someone.

Baby, Thing

It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative.

Child, Children, Creative, Play, Playing

The scientific approach to the phenomenon of human nature enables us to be ignorant without bieng frightened, and without, therefore, having to invent all sorts of wierd theories to explain away our gaps in knowledge.

Bieng, Gaps, Human Nature, Ignorant, Phenomenon, Wierd

Feeling real is more than existing; it is finding a way to exist as oneself. . . and to have a self into which to retreat for relaxation.

Feeling, Feelings, Finding, Real, Retreat, Self

There is for many a poverty of play.

Play, Poverty

It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.

Disaster, Found, Hidden, Joy

The fact that grief takes so long to resolve is not a sign of inadequacy, but betokens depth of soul.

Grief, Long, Resolve, Sign, Soul

What is a normal child like? Does he just eat and grow and smile sweetly? No, that is not what he is like. The normal child, if he has confidence in mother and father, pulls out all the stops. In the course of time, he tries out his power to disrupt, to destroy, to frighten, to wear down, to waste, to wangle, and to appropriate. . . At the start he absolutely needs to live in a circle of love and strength (with consequent tolerance) if he is not to be too fearful of his own thoughts and of his imaginings to make progress in his emotional development.

Children, Disrupt, Father, Mother, Needs, Thoughts

I don't mind saying in advance that in my opinion jealousy is normal and healthy. Jealousy arises out of the fact that children love. If they have no capacity to love, then they don't show jealousy.

Capacity To Love, Children, Healthy, Jealousy, Love, Opinion