Esta obra fundamental em psicanálise de crianças, reunião de ensaios sobre o amadurecimento escritos entre 1958 e 1963, põe em evidência uma característica distintiva da abordagem do psicanalista britâ sua capacidade de olhar para a criança em seus próprios termos, sem vê-la como mero protótipo para o adulto. O desenvolvimento de um senso moral e da capacidade de suportar a solidão; a relação entre falta de espontaneidade e psicopatologia; o papel central do cuidado no desenvolvimento do indivíduo; os desejos opostos da criança de se comunicar e se isolar; as especificidades da psicanálise infantil – todas essas questões são examinadas com base no trabalho clínico que Winnicott realizou ao longo de décadas, com pacientes bebês, crianças e adolescentes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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