The Two Truths of Winnicott
November 24, 2022 Z. Loparic Winnicott is not a man of just one truth. His truths are many, of different ages, his own and those of others, and of all humanity, and he has them all within himself. The truths are of various types: scientific...
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Septemper 23, 2022 Z. Loparic Winnicott revolutionized psychoanalytic pathology when he stated, in 1948, that schizophrenia is a sort of environmental deficiency disease. Mental illnesses are traditionally seen in psychoanalysis as a result of...
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Septemper 16, 2022 Z. Loparic Winnicott established a clear contrast between his concept of creative living, whereby the individual builds a life that, whatever the suffering, is worth living, and the Freudian concept of adaptive living for the...
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Cult, April 22, 2022 Z. Loparic Winnicott did not change psychoanalysis by providing new answers to old problems. His revolution consisted in recognizing the existence of problems that had evaded psychoanalytic treatment or been misdiagnosed, and...
Read MoreTHE KUHNIAN FRAMEWORK
KUHN AND PSYCHOANALYSIS 1. The use of Kuhn theory of paradigms and of scientific revolution in recent Winnicott studies Winnicott was and still is acknowledged by many as an outstanding practitioner who, however, did not make any decisive...
Read MoreProposal for Candidacy to the Presidency of the IWA
I. The slate President: Roseana Garcia (Brazil) Vice-President: Zhao Chengzhi (China) Vice-President: Rosário Belo (Portugal) Treasurer: Ariadne Engelberg de Moraes (Brazil) Assistant Treasurer: Cris Paiva (Brazil) Secretary: Wei Chenchi (Kevin)...
Read MoreLa Teoria dei Processi Maturativi di Winnicott: Una Lettura Unitaria dell’Opera Winnicotiana
In February 2022, the Italian translation of Winnicott’s Theory of the Maturational Process, by Elsa Oliveira Dias, will be launched in Rome under the title, La Teoria dei Processi Maturativi di Winnicott: Una Lettura Unitaria dell’Opera...
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