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« `Depression` is just what we all experience from time to time. We don't want to be shaken like a plum tree to get us out of this mood, but a true friend tolerates us, helps us a little, and waits. »
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Donald W. Winnicott
The family good enough |
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The family good enough
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« There are people who think that a child is like clay in the hands of a potter. They begin to mold the baby and feel responsible for the result. They're wrong. If that's what you're feeling, you're squeezed by responsibilities that you absolutely don't need to take. If you accept the idea of a baby that exists on its own, then you will be free to take great interest in observing what happens when the baby grows up, while being happy to meet his needs. The Child and His Family, Payot, 1957 »
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Donald W. Winnicott
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Donald W. Winnicott
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« In other words, the only real foundation of a child's relationship with his father and mother, with the other children and, ultimately, with society, is the first successful relationship between mother and baby, between two people, without rules regarding fixed-hour breastfeeding, not even the rule that the baby should be breastfed. In human affairs, the most complex can only develop from the simplest. »
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Donald W. Winnicott
The child and his family |
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Donald W. Winnicott
The child and his family
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