Donald Winnicott and the foundations of child psychotherapy

Kahr, Brett

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“…His changed perspective, with his early fears of total despair never coming to be, need surely to be seen both in the context of inner resources and external support. Being able to experience the emotional truth of his situation seemed to sustain Judt through his illness and help him extract meaning from life to the end: ‘to be alive when he died’ (Winnicott, quoted in Kahr, , p. 327).…”

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‘How Can Anyone Live Like That?’ Exploring the Conscious and Unconscious Implications for Disabled People of any Change in Assisted Suicide Law

Kane¹

2019

Brit J Psychotherapy

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This paper explores the issue of assisted suicide in relation to disabled people from a psychosocial perspective. The implications, particularly the unconscious implications, for disabled people and for the psychosocial dynamics around disability if assisted suicide was made lawful in the UK are explored. Assisted suicide is the subject of persistent attempts at legal change and while not, in theory, specific to disabled people, the issue brings some of the psychosocial dynamics around impairment and disability into focus, illuminating the attitudes and emotions with which disabled people must try to live. Psychoanalytic ideas in relation to trauma, loss, mourning and containment are drawn upon with particular reference to the work of Freud, Klein, Bion and more contemporary thinkers such as Garland, Sinason and Rustin. The paper draws on three texts by disabled people in order to explore emotional responses to profound impairment. Attachment theory helps in considering varying narrative styles. Disability studies literature and legal, social and political contextual issues inform the psychosocial perspective applied in the paper.

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‘How Can Anyone Live Like That?’ Exploring the Conscious and Unconscious Implications for Disabled People of any Change in Assisted Suicide Law

Kane¹

2019

Brit J Psychotherapy

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“…'I, personally would think of behaviour therapy as an insult to the higher apes' (Winnicott, 1969(Winnicott, /1989. He was also an advocate of brief therapy in the form of the squiggle game for selected cases (Kahr, 1996) and less intensive therapy (Rodriguez, 1999), challenging the view that the psychoanalytic approach always involved intensive long-term intervention.…”

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Child psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the UK National Health Service: an historical analysis

Rous

Clark

2009

Hist Psychiatry

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“…He also wrote and spoke on many other matters of public concern, including hospital policies and childhood delinquency. Scholars from a range of disciplines have pointed to Winnicott as an emblem of the structure of feeling associated with the post‐war British welfare state and/or characterised him as a source of progressive political ideas (Alexander 2012; Honig 2017; Kahr 1996; Lebeau 2019; Phillips 2007).…”

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“…post-war British welfare state and/or characterised him as a source of progressive political ideas (Alexander 2012;Honig 2017;Kahr 1996;Lebeau 2019;Phillips 2007).…”

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Theatre for children with profound and multiple learning difficulties: A Winnicottian perspective

Richmond

2022

Metaphilosophy

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The London-based Oily Cart theatre company aims to produce shows that are suitable for all young people. This paper closely examines one of their productions, Splish Splash, which was developed for children with profound and multiple learning difficulties. The paper's central purpose is to understand the value of this type of theatrical experience for these children. It argues that Winnicott's conception of play, and his account of the conditions that enable the capacity for play to unfold, provide a persuasive theoretical framework that makes sense of Oily Cart's achievement. Winnicott's framework can integrate the views expressed (in interviews) by adults who were involved with or observed the show; arguably it is also corroborated by more recent infant research.

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Donald Winnicott and the foundations of child psychotherapy

Cited by 9 publications

References 7 publications

‘How Can Anyone Live Like That?’ Exploring the Conscious and Unconscious Implications for Disabled People of any Change in Assisted Suicide Law

‘How Can Anyone Live Like That?’ Exploring the Conscious and Unconscious Implications for Disabled People of any Change in Assisted Suicide Law

Child psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the UK National Health Service: an historical analysis

Theatre for children with profound and multiple learning difficulties: A Winnicottian perspective

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