Donald Winnicott Quotes

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It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.

Donald Winnicott

There is for many a poverty of play and cultural life.

Donald Winnicott

Feeling real is more than existing; it is finding a way to exist as oneself... and to have a self into which to retreat for relaxation.

Donald Winnicott

Donald Winnicott

Donald Winnicott

Born: April 7, 1896

Died: January 25, 1971 (aged 74)

Bio: Donald Woods Winnicott was an English paediatrician and psychoanalyst who was especially influential in the field of object relations theory.

Known for:

Playing and Reality (1971)
The Child, the Family, and the Outside World (1964)

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