Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment: Studies in the Theory of Emotional Development (Maresfield Library)
By Donald Winnicott.
Description
The collection of papers that forms The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment brings together Dr. Winnicott's published and unpublished papers on psychoanalysis and child development during the period 1957-1963. It has, as its main theme, the carrying back of the application of Freud's theories to infancy. Freud showed that psycho-neurosis has its point of origin in the interpersonal relationships of the first maturity, belonging to the toddler age. Dr Winnicott explores the idea that mental health disorders relate to failures of development in infancy. Without d...
ISBN(s)
0946439842, 9780946439843
