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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.
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".
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 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 ...
- The ‘good-enough’ Mother
- The ‘Transitional Object’
- The ‘False Self’ and The ‘True Self’
- The ‘Capacity For Concern’
Winnicott recognised that ‘the ordinary devoted mother’ was not perfect and would, therefore, inevitably make mistakes in the care of her infant. What she would then do, however, was to make repairs and readjustments in her interaction with the infant. This idea of the ‘good-enough mother’ has offered solace to parents ever since Winnicott coined t...
Perhaps Winnicott’s best known idea is his explanation of the child’s habit of becoming very attached to a favourite blanket or toy. Interaction with this material object tends to lessen anxiety and also help the child adapt to change. Many parents will testify that what is a smelly bit of old blanket to them may become something very important to ...
Along with his ideas on ‘good-enough’ parenting, Winnicott discusses what he calls environmental failure at various stages of the child’s (emotional) development. At the earliest stage of infancy, when the child is in a state of ‘absolute dependence’ on the mother, such failure can have very serious effects on later development. He describes the si...
In the early life of the healthy infant, a very important stage of development is marked by the beginning of a ‘capacity for concern’. Between the ages of five months or so and two years, children gradually develop a sense of personal responsibility for their actions. Winnicott says that concern ‘turns up in the baby’s life as a highly sophisticate...
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 ...
May 8, 2016 · He described his life’s work as animated, above all, by “the urge to find and to appreciate the ordinary good mother” and believed that “the foundations of health are laid down by the ordinary mother in her ordinary loving care of her own baby.”
