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Winnicott: An Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips*
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Department of Child and Family Psychiatry, Charing Cross Hospital, 2 Wolverton Gardens, London W6
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“Health is much more difficult to deal with than disease.” D. W. Winnicott

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In a talk given in 1945 to the sixth form of St Paul's School, Donald Winnicott described his experience, as a schoolboy, of discovering Darwin's Origin of Species:

“I could not leave off reading it. At the time I did not know why it was so important to me, but I see now that the main thing was that it showed that living things could be examined scientifically with the corollary that gaps in knowledge and understanding need not scare me. For me this idea meant a great lessening of tension and consequently a release of energy for work and play.” (Quoted in Davis & Wallbridge, 1983, p. 24.)

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 155 , Issue 5 , November 1989 , pp. 612 - 618
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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