Winnicott's Intellectual Journey

Authors

  • Elsa Oliveira Dias Centro Winnicott de São Paulo (CWSP)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.59539/2175-2834-v4n1-759

Keywords:

maturation; facilitating environment; organistic medicine; pediatrics; infantile psychiatry; academic psychology; interpsychic processes; paradigm.

Abstract

This article deals with the professional and theoretical journey of D. W. Winnicott that exert a marked influence on his thought. Various aspects of the debate that he implicitly and explicitly entered into with different areas of scientific knowledge of his era are underlined - pediatrics, psychiatry, especially infantile, academic psychology and his principal interlocutor, traditional psychoanalysis, represented by Freud and Melanie Klein - regarding central themes in his work, such as the nature of the psique, heredity, human development and psychic health and illness.

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Published

2024-05-17 — Updated on 2002-05-17

How to Cite

Dias, E. O. (2002). Winnicott’s Intellectual Journey. Human Nature - International Philosophy and Psychology Review, 4(1), 111–156. https://doi.org/10.59539/2175-2834-v4n1-759

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2002): Natureza Humana

Section

Artigos