MATURATIONAL PROCESSES - Hardcover

Winnicott, D.W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701201452 ISBN 13: 9780701201456

Publisher: Random House UK, 1987

Synopsis

The collection of papers that forms The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment brings together Dr. Winnicott's published and unpublished papers on psychoanalysis and child development during the period 1957-1963. It has, as its main theme, the carrying back of the application of Freud's theories to infancy. Freud showed that psycho-neurosis has its point of origin in the interpersonal relationships of the first maturity, belonging to the toddler age. Dr Winnicott explores the idea that mental health disorders relate to failures of development in infancy. Without denying the importance of inheritance, he has developed the theory that schizophrenic illness shows up as the negative of processes that can be traced in detail as the positive processes of maturation in infancy and early childhood.

About this title

About the Author:

Donald Winnicott (1896-1971) was trained in paediatrics, a profession that he practiced to the end of his life, in particular at the Paddington Green Children's Hospital. He began analysis with James Strachey in 1923, became a member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society in 1935, and twice served as its President. He was also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and of the British Psychological Society.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House UK
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0701201452
• ISBN 13: 9780701201456
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296