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Elective: D.W. Winnicott
March 11, 2022 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, Freud Classroom
Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2021-22, 2nd Trimester — Fridays, 3:30-5:00pm
Matthew Brooks, MSW LICSW
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March 11, 2022 — Separateness and connection
[27 pages]
[27 pages + 19 suggested]
The papers we read for today are from Winnicott not just the theorist but the clinician. While they show his personal style, they also illustrate his understanding of what happens in the clinical encounter, and how it reflects and recapitulates the developmental and psychic themes of our patients’ lives. In these papers we find references to regression, dependence, aliveness, holding, isolation, and relating. We also see Winnicott building up his own ideas over time, giving us a chance to question the ways his theories shaped psychoanalytic practice.
Winnicott, D.W. (1960). “Ego distortion in terms of true and false self” in The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment. London: Hogarth Press (1965), pp140-152.
Winnicott, D.W. (1963). “Communicating and not communicating leading to a study of certain opposites” in The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment. London: Hogarth Press (1965), pp179-192.
Suggested Reading:
Winnicott, D.W. (1960). “The theory of the parent-infant relationship” in The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment. London: Hogarth Press (1965), pp37-55.