Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment: Studies in the Theory of Emotional Development

by D.W. Winnicott

A collection of his papers divided between 'child development' and 'theory and practice'.

Genres: Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Nonfiction

296 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1970

About the author

Donald Woods Winnicott was an English pediatrician, psychiatrist, sociologist and psychoanalyst.

Reviews

[Michael Lassoff · Rating 5 out of 5]

Winnicott is one of the few psychoanalytic writers who is nice to read when really in a tizzy. While Freud and many others might be just as pertinent, they rarely have much anesthetic value. Winnicott is very kind. When you read him you get the sense that he likes you and the world is not so bad as you might have thought.

[Don · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think I am only now reading Donald Winnicott for the first time because of my own chronological snobbery. Winnicott certainly got some things wrong — e.g., infant research has, as far as I know, disproven the idea that the infant initially believes herself to be fused with her mother — but most of what he writes is astonishingly spot on. There’s a beauty here and a wisdom that I find breath-taking, especially given that this guy died before I was even born. I picked up this collection of essays to help me become a better clinician, but these writings can help us become better parents and better human beings.

[Sergio Gomes]

The Environment and maturational process is one of the best books Winnictt. In this unique book, he presents and advances in some of his ideas on the theory of emotional development, some clinics and some other ideas about psychiatric disorders.

[Joanna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Elsker Winnicott, kanskje mer enn Freud!

[Roberto Yoed · Rating 4 out of 5]

More interesting than the other compilations of his articles: this book focuses on delinquency and antisocial tendencies.

It's inevitable, but even the people that haven't read Marx end up concluding that most of the social and psychological symtpoms occur due to external sociological instancies.

[Samuela · Rating 5 out of 5]

I find that to be a great book talking early infancy, development, dependency and limitations, false self concept and alike. Just its written in rather a very clinician way / style making it hard to digest at times

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[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

probably in my office along with other DW Winnicott books.