Attachment, play and authenticity: a Winnicott primer

Overview

Dialectical meaning-making in infancy

A good object must be found in order to be created

The true self and false compliance

The true self and false compliance

We are essentially isolates, with the capacity to be alone

Using objects and the capacity to hate

Integrating theory with therapy: the case of Bob

The meaning and power of play

The mind, the body, and the world of transitional phenomena

Hate in the countertransference

The antisocial tendency

The aims of psychoanalytic treatment

Winnicott as therapist more than theorist.