Donald Winnicott

Donald Winnicott FRCP
Born	Donald Woods Winnicott (1896-04-07)7 April 1896 Plymouth, Devon, England
Died	25 January 1971(1971-01-25) (aged 74) London, England
Alma mater	Jesus College, Cambridge St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College
Occupations	Paediatrician psychiatrist psychoanalyst
Known for	Stages of development holding environment subjective omnipotence objective reality transitional experience good enough parent true self and false self
Spouses	Alice Buxton Winnicott ​ ​ (m. 1923; div. 1949)​ Clare Nimmo Britton ​ (m. 1951)​
Parent	Elizabeth Martha Woods (mother) Sir John Frederick Winnicott (father)
Winnicott's voice from the BBC programme Archive on Four, 4 May 2013[1]

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Important works The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901) Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905) Psychology of the Unconscious (1912) Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) The Ego and the Id (1923) Civilization and Its Discontents (1930) The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933) The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (1964) Anti-Oedipus (1972) The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)
Schools of thought Adlerian Ego psychology Jungian Lacanian Interpersonal Intersubjective Marxist Object relations Reichian Relational Self psychology
Training Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis British Psychoanalytic Council British Psychoanalytical Society Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research International Psychoanalytical Association World Association of Psychoanalysis List of schools of psychoanalysis
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Donald Woods Winnicott (7 April 1896 – 25 January 1971) was an English paediatrician and psychoanalyst who was especially influential in the field of object relations theory and developmental psychology. He was a leading member of the British Independent Group of the British Psychoanalytical Society, President of the British Psychoanalytical Society twice (1956–1959 and 1965–1968), and a close associate of British writer and psychoanalyst Marion Milner.^[2]

Winnicott is best known for his ideas on the true self and false self, the "good enough" parent, and borrowed from his second wife, Clare, arguably his chief professional collaborator, the notion of the transitional object.^{[citation needed]} He wrote several books, including Playing and Reality,^[3] and over 200 papers.^[4]