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May 3, 2016 · The phrase "the good enough mother" was coined by the British pediatrician and psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott in his famous book Playing and Reality. In discussing the mother (or other...
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Winnicott: the holding environment and the ‘good enough mother’. Donald Winnicott expanded on the early object relational theories of Klein, Bion and others, and became an important and influential theorist in developing a more relational, social model of psychic development.
Mar 14, 2018 · The phrase "good enough mother" was first coined in 1953 by Donald Winnicott, a British pediatrician and psychoanalyst. Winnicott observed thousands of babies and their mothers, and he came to realize that babies and children actually benefit when their mothers fail them in manageable ways.
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Good enough parent is a concept deriving from the work of Donald Winnicott, in his efforts to provide support for what he called "the sound instincts of normal parents...stable and healthy families". [1]
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Winnicott sees the key role of the 'good enough' mother as adaptation to the baby, thus giving it a sense of control, 'omnipotence' and the comfort of being connected with the mother. This 'holding environment' allows the infant to transition at its own rate to a more autonomous position. "The good-enough mother...starts off with an almost complete...
Winnicott was a pediatrician who was concerned with the development of children. He took a softer approach than such as Freud and Lacan, perhaps moderated by his teacher, Melanie Klein. This included views about the role of parents. This helped popularize his teachings, especially after guilt engendered by more Freudian approaches. Winnicott and Kl...
Winnicott,Winnicott's development stages,True self, false self Winnicott, D. (1953). Transitional objects and transitional phenomena, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 34:89-97 Winnicott, D.W. (1955-6) Clinical varieties of transference. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 37, 386 Winnicott, D. W. (1967). Mirror-role of the mother and ...
good-enough mother n. A concept introduced in 1953 by the English psychoanalyst Donald Woods Winnicott (1896–1971) to denote a mother who initially behaves towards a totally dependent infant just how the infant wishes, allowing the infant to feel all-powerful and to maintain the fantasy that the mother is a part of itself, and who later ...
Yet, paediatrician Donald Winnicott took the parenting world by storm in the 1950s by introducing the concept of ‘good enough’:2 ‘The good-enough mother … starts off with an almost complete adaptation to her infant’s needs, and as time proceeds she adapts less and less completely, gradually, according to the infant’s growing ability ...
