@winnicott-trust.bsky.social There are certainly many admirers of Winnicott's works in bsky.social ! Time to @winnicott-trust.bsky.social help spread his ideas!
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August 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
@winnicott-trust.bsky.social There are certainly many admirers of Winnicott's works in bsky.social ! Time to @winnicott-trust.bsky.social help spread his ideas!
To add to this - ‘It would be wrong to understand Winnicott’s words to mean that there is a fully developed true self hidden behind the false self. If that were so, there would be no narcissistic disturbance but a conscious self-protection’
Alice Miller - The Drama Of Being A Child
Alice Miller - The Drama Of Being A Child
June 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
To add to this - ‘It would be wrong to understand Winnicott’s words to mean that there is a fully developed true self hidden behind the false self. If that were so, there would be no narcissistic disturbance but a conscious self-protection’
Alice Miller - The Drama Of Being A Child
Alice Miller - The Drama Of Being A Child
"The maternal-fetal dyad has become a triad: mama, baby, screen...Donald Winnicott’s “good enough” mother is dead; the internet tells us that mothers can never be too good, never too vigilant."
My review of @amandahess.bsky.social's Second Life in @theobserveruk.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/48mxhcv3
My review of @amandahess.bsky.social's Second Life in @theobserveruk.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/48mxhcv3
Our phones keep the score: pregnancy in the digital age | The Observer
Amanda Hess’s account of a pregnancy and perinatal experience shaped by apps, targeted ads and message boards is tender, funny and human
observer.co.uk
May 13, 2025 at 11:24 AM
"The maternal-fetal dyad has become a triad: mama, baby, screen...Donald Winnicott’s “good enough” mother is dead; the internet tells us that mothers can never be too good, never too vigilant."
My review of @amandahess.bsky.social's Second Life in @theobserveruk.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/48mxhcv3
My review of @amandahess.bsky.social's Second Life in @theobserveruk.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/48mxhcv3
The River (the river as subconscious)
Darkness on the Edge of Town (liminal space)
Brilliant Disguise (Lacanian void/Winnicott's false self)
The Ties that Bind (genetics and love)
Darkness on the Edge of Town (liminal space)
Brilliant Disguise (Lacanian void/Winnicott's false self)
The Ties that Bind (genetics and love)
December 28, 2024 at 8:40 AM
The River (the river as subconscious)
Darkness on the Edge of Town (liminal space)
Brilliant Disguise (Lacanian void/Winnicott's false self)
The Ties that Bind (genetics and love)
Darkness on the Edge of Town (liminal space)
Brilliant Disguise (Lacanian void/Winnicott's false self)
The Ties that Bind (genetics and love)
like this is truly bowlby and winnicott's victory
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
like this is truly bowlby and winnicott's victory
In his profound exploration of the human psyche, Donald Winnicott illuminates the intriguing notion that “it is a joy to be hidden.” This concept resonates with our innate desire for privacy and the comfort found in our inner worlds. Winnicott's work invites us to embrace our spaces, where auth
February 26, 2025 at 7:00 AM
In his profound exploration of the human psyche, Donald Winnicott illuminates the intriguing notion that “it is a joy to be hidden.” This concept resonates with our innate desire for privacy and the comfort found in our inner worlds. Winnicott's work invites us to embrace our spaces, where auth
In honor of #Winnicott's birthday, a #poem by #EugeneMahon
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/2016/04/10/poem-for-winnicotts-birthday-by-eugene-mahon/?utm_medium=twitter
#psychoanalysis
#psychodynamics
#psychotherapy
http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/2016/04/10/poem-for-winnicotts-birthday-by-eugene-mahon/?utm_medium=twitter
#psychoanalysis
#psychodynamics
#psychotherapy
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December 4, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Open Access UCL Research: How can Winnicott’s Concept, ‘the Use of an Object’ Develop Understanding of the Psychoanalytic Concept of Narcissism?
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
How can Winnicott’s Concept, ‘the Use of an Object’ Develop Understanding of the Psychoanalytic Concept of Narcissism?
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January 23, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Open Access UCL Research: How can Winnicott’s Concept, ‘the Use of an Object’ Develop Understanding of the Psychoanalytic Concept of Narcissism?
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
Winnicott's antidote to anxiety about whether a care-giver (not just to kids) is good enough.
“I would rather be a child of a mother who has all the inner conflicts of a human being than be mothered by someone for whom all is easy and smooth, who knows all the answers, and is a stranger to doubt.”
“I would rather be a child of a mother who has all the inner conflicts of a human being than be mothered by someone for whom all is easy and smooth, who knows all the answers, and is a stranger to doubt.”
February 2, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Winnicott's antidote to anxiety about whether a care-giver (not just to kids) is good enough.
“I would rather be a child of a mother who has all the inner conflicts of a human being than be mothered by someone for whom all is easy and smooth, who knows all the answers, and is a stranger to doubt.”
“I would rather be a child of a mother who has all the inner conflicts of a human being than be mothered by someone for whom all is easy and smooth, who knows all the answers, and is a stranger to doubt.”
Teaching a class from an ongoing course this week on the foundations of PsyA, and we’re doing Winnicott’s “Use of an Object” this week. Very exciting to discuss and play with this paper.
February 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Teaching a class from an ongoing course this week on the foundations of PsyA, and we’re doing Winnicott’s “Use of an Object” this week. Very exciting to discuss and play with this paper.
Really enjoyed this conversation between @kemtrup.bsky.social & Max Kusovitsky on Winnicott's fear of breakdown--fear of something that has already happened to us & its implications for treatment.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGg0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGg0...
wtf is a mental breakdown? wtf is a self? wtf is boredom?
YouTube video by wtf is life
www.youtube.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Really enjoyed this conversation between @kemtrup.bsky.social & Max Kusovitsky on Winnicott's fear of breakdown--fear of something that has already happened to us & its implications for treatment.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGg0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGg0...
The unconscious is, afterall unconscious.
Winnicott’s work on playing & the “experience” of newness that emerges when playing with another affirms through a creative connection both between others & within oneself. He suggested key to what is therapeutic but quick to add often a terrifying process
Winnicott’s work on playing & the “experience” of newness that emerges when playing with another affirms through a creative connection both between others & within oneself. He suggested key to what is therapeutic but quick to add often a terrifying process
November 23, 2024 at 9:43 AM
The unconscious is, afterall unconscious.
Winnicott’s work on playing & the “experience” of newness that emerges when playing with another affirms through a creative connection both between others & within oneself. He suggested key to what is therapeutic but quick to add often a terrifying process
Winnicott’s work on playing & the “experience” of newness that emerges when playing with another affirms through a creative connection both between others & within oneself. He suggested key to what is therapeutic but quick to add often a terrifying process
Second Keynote from Maxine Dennis,Consultant Psychologist and Psychoanalyst at #BIGSPD25: “Containing the Containers”
Drawing on Winnicott’s impingement & the paranoid-schizoid position (Klein), to look deeper—into the pain, fear & defences of care systems & ourselves.
Powerful, layered & needed.
Drawing on Winnicott’s impingement & the paranoid-schizoid position (Klein), to look deeper—into the pain, fear & defences of care systems & ourselves.
Powerful, layered & needed.
June 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Second Keynote from Maxine Dennis,Consultant Psychologist and Psychoanalyst at #BIGSPD25: “Containing the Containers”
Drawing on Winnicott’s impingement & the paranoid-schizoid position (Klein), to look deeper—into the pain, fear & defences of care systems & ourselves.
Powerful, layered & needed.
Drawing on Winnicott’s impingement & the paranoid-schizoid position (Klein), to look deeper—into the pain, fear & defences of care systems & ourselves.
Powerful, layered & needed.
"[I]n front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself; she is going to die: I shudder, like Winnicott’s psychotic patient, over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe."
—#Barthes
—#Barthes
January 28, 2024 at 10:03 PM
"[I]n front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself; she is going to die: I shudder, like Winnicott’s psychotic patient, over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe."
—#Barthes
—#Barthes
Spent time with Donald Winnicott at the gym today, listening to Steven Tuber talk about Winnicott’s ideas - the false self, transitional objects, the good enough mother, hate - and, of course, play!
Well worth a listen - podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...
Well worth a listen - podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...
Dr. Donald Winnicott with Dr. Steven Tuber
Podcast Episode · Give Me a Name · 24/05/2022 · 43m
podcasts.apple.com
October 22, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Spent time with Donald Winnicott at the gym today, listening to Steven Tuber talk about Winnicott’s ideas - the false self, transitional objects, the good enough mother, hate - and, of course, play!
Well worth a listen - podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...
Well worth a listen - podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...
Ahmed’s “excellent subject” and Winnicott’s “good enough” expose a central tension in contemporary identity formation: neoliberalism requires performance and self-optimization, while genuine psychological development requires tolerating imperfection, limitation, and relational ambiguity.
June 11, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Ahmed’s “excellent subject” and Winnicott’s “good enough” expose a central tension in contemporary identity formation: neoliberalism requires performance and self-optimization, while genuine psychological development requires tolerating imperfection, limitation, and relational ambiguity.
I think the neuroscientific understanding of the role that mirror neurons play in “mentalization” and the process of intersubjective recognition is closer to Winnicott’s understanding of mirroring than that of Lacan’s. At least, that’s what I gather from reading Fonagy.
October 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I think the neuroscientific understanding of the role that mirror neurons play in “mentalization” and the process of intersubjective recognition is closer to Winnicott’s understanding of mirroring than that of Lacan’s. At least, that’s what I gather from reading Fonagy.
Christopher Bollas, in conversation with Anthony Molina, outlines his particular psychoanalytic and therapeutic understanding of Winnicott’s notion of a true self.
January 7, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Christopher Bollas, in conversation with Anthony Molina, outlines his particular psychoanalytic and therapeutic understanding of Winnicott’s notion of a true self.
I just noticed an old annotation in the margins of the chapter on expressive use of the countertransference where I glossed a reference by Bollas to Winnicott’s notion of the true self as “desire, the libido, the non-compliant.”
October 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I just noticed an old annotation in the margins of the chapter on expressive use of the countertransference where I glossed a reference by Bollas to Winnicott’s notion of the true self as “desire, the libido, the non-compliant.”
It is as if I have a sneaking feeling that some people do find life not too bad
(From winnicott’s case history)
(From winnicott’s case history)
September 24, 2023 at 3:58 PM
It is as if I have a sneaking feeling that some people do find life not too bad
(From winnicott’s case history)
(From winnicott’s case history)
Just realised it was Winnicott’s birthday on Monday, born 1896.
April 11, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Just realised it was Winnicott’s birthday on Monday, born 1896.
Michael Eigen on his understanding of the kabbalistic dimension of Bion and Winnicott’s psychoanalytic thought and practice.
December 22, 2023 at 1:09 PM
Michael Eigen on his understanding of the kabbalistic dimension of Bion and Winnicott’s psychoanalytic thought and practice.
I never actually read Winnicott's essay on the "transitional object," but I think of this term as applying to social media.
November 15, 2024 at 3:39 PM
I never actually read Winnicott's essay on the "transitional object," but I think of this term as applying to social media.
Seventeen pages later, Khan returns to the point you are making, by discussing, and quoting Winnicott's idea of the overlap of patient and therapist as 'two areas of playing' and the context here is Khan enabling Mr X to 'play' verbally into conversation.
January 28, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Seventeen pages later, Khan returns to the point you are making, by discussing, and quoting Winnicott's idea of the overlap of patient and therapist as 'two areas of playing' and the context here is Khan enabling Mr X to 'play' verbally into conversation.