D W Winnicott

Home Is Where We Start From

by D W Winnicott

Winnicott was one of the most accomplished interpreters of Freud in England. And what is interesting is that he makes psychoanalysis very English... He takes a body of knowledge that can be very abstract and pretentious at times, and turns it into something much more suited to the English character. By that I mean that he spoke in plain language. He was also eccentric and he had a sense of humour, which we associate with literature in this country.

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