Human Nature
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 1990
Book
Hardback
204 pages
978-0-87630-620-8 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1990. The ideas of Donald Winnicott are scattered through numerous clinical papers and short, popular expositions. He made only one attempt to write and overview of his ideas, and this is it. It remained unfinished at his death in 1971. It is an ambitious work. The chapters offer his perspective on most of the main issues in psychoanalytic theory - for example, psychosomatics; the Oedipus complex; infantile sexuality; the unconscious; the depressive position; manic defence; transitional objects; aggression. Winnicott has here made a major synthetic effort, one which is regarded as the best of his posthumous works. D. W. Winnicott can be said to be the most influential native-born British psychoanalyst and - with Klein and Fairbairn - the founder of the object relations perspective. His writings are among the most moving and evocative int he whole literature of psychoanalysis.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87630-620-8 (9780876306208)
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Donald Woods Winnicott (1896-1971) was one of Britain's foremost pediatricians and psychoanalysts. He studied at the Leys School and at Jesus College, both in Cambridge, before training as a physician at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London.
Content
Introduction; I: The Human Child Examined: Soma, Psyche, Mind; 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; II: The Emotional Development of the Human Being; Introduction; 1: Interpersonal Relationships; 2: The Concept of Health Using Instinct Theory; III: Establishment of Unit Status; Introduction; 1: The Depressive Position; 2: Development of the Theme of the Inner World; 3: Various Types of Psycho-Therapy Material; 4: Hypochondriacal Anxiety; IV: From Instinct Theory to EGO Theory; Introduction: Primitive Emotional Development; 1: Establishment of Relationship with External Reality; 2: Integration; 3: Dwelling of Psyche in Body; 4: The Earliest States; 5: 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