The Family and Individual Development

<strong>The Family and Individual Development</strong> represents a decade of writing from athinker who was at the peak of his powers as perhaps the leading pos... » 

The Family and Individual Development represents a decade of writing from athinker who was at the peak of his powers as perhaps the leading postwarfigure in developmental psychiatry. In these pages Winnicott chronicles thecomplex inner lives of human beings from the first encounter between motherand newborn through the doldrums of adolescence to maturity. As Winnicottexplains in his final chapter the health of a properly functioning democraticsociety derives from the working of the ordinary good home. «