The Family and Individual Development

Winnicott
The Family and Individual Development

PREFACE vii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS viii
INTRODUCTION TO THE ROUTLEDGE CLASSICS EDITION xii

PART 1 1
1 The first year of life : modern views on the
emotional development 3
2 The relationship of a mother to her baby at the beginning 21
3 Growth and development in immaturity 29
4 On security 42
5 The five-year-old 48
6 Integrative and disruptive factors in family life 57
7 The family affected by depressive illness in one
or both parents 72
8 The effect of psychosis on family life 88
9 The effect of psychotic parents on the emotional
development of the child 99
10 Adolescence : struggling through the doldrums 114
11 The family and emotional maturity 128

PART II 139
12 Theoretical statement of the field of child psychiatry 141
13 The contribution of psycho-analysis to midwifery 154
14 Advising parents 165
15 Casework with mentally ill children 176
16 The deprived child and how he can be compensated
for loss of family life 193
17 Group influences and the maladjusted child :
the school aspect 214
18 Some thoughts on the meaning of the word democracy 228


INDEX 251