The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment: Studies in the Theory of Emotional Development by Donald Winnicott

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The collection of papers that forms The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment brings together Dr. Winnicott's published and unpublished papers on psychoanalysis and child development during the period 1957-1963. It has, as its main theme, the carrying back of the application of Freud's theories to infancy. Freud showed that psycho-neurosis has its point of origin in the interpersonal relationships of the first maturity, belonging to the toddler age. Dr Winnicott explores the idea that mental health disorders relate to failures of development in infancy. Without denying the importance of inheritance, he has developed the theory that schizophrenic illness shows up as the negative of processes that can be traced in detail as the positive processes of maturation in infancy and early childhood.

Selected Books by D.W. Winnicott

• Playing and Reality

• Deprivation and Delinquency

• The Family and Individual Development

• Holding and Interpretation: Fragment of an Analysis

Selected Books on D.W. Winnicott

• Winnicott by Adam Phillips

• Tea with Winnicott

• Language of Winnicott: A Dictionary of Winnicott's Use of Words

• Play and Reflection in Donald Winnicott's Writings by Andre Green 

• Winnicott and the Psychoanalytic Tradition: Interpretation and Other Psychoanalytic Issues

• Donald Winnicott Today

• Donald Winnicott and John Bowlby: Personal and Professional Perspectives

• Between Winnicott and Lacan: A Clinical Engagement