"What is a normal child like? Does he……" — Donald Woods Winnicott
"What is a normal child like? Does he just eat and grow and smile sweetly? No, that is not what he is like. The normal child, if he has confidence in mother and father, pulls out all the stops. In the course of time, he tries out his power to disrupt, to destroy, to frighten, to wear down, to waste, to wangle, and to appropriate . . . At the start he absolutely needs to live in a circle of love and strength (with consequent tolerance) if he is not to be too fearful of his own thoughts and of his imaginings to make progress in his emotional development."
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14 Quotes by Donald Woods Winnicott
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The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.
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The scientific approach to the phenomenon of human nature enables us to be ignorant without bieng frightened, and without, therefore,…
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There is no such thing as a baby, there is a baby and someone.
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We fight to exist. Personally, I am not ashamed of fighting to exist. We are doing no very extraordinary thing…
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It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative.
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The fact that grief takes so long to resolve is not a sign of inadequacy, but betokens depth of soul.
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Play like dreams serves the function of self realization.
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It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.
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Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.
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The mother gazes at the baby in her arms, and the baby gazes at his mother's face and finds himself…
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It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and…
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There is for many a poverty of play.
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