Nwinnicott the capacity to be alone pdf files

What links here related changes upload file special pages permanent link page. A psychoanalytic commentary on virginia woolfs to the. From dependence towards independence in the development of the individual 1963. He states that, at first, for the infant, there is no experience of. Winnicott discusses what makes it possible for the human being to develop a capacity to be alone. This boy at the age of nine was dealing with a deprivation belonging to an earlier age, and what he needed was a period at home. The capacity to be alone is a highly sophisticated phenomenon and has many contributory factors. The role of the father in winnicotts writings thompson, n. The maturational processes and recommended psychiatric consultation. The egosupportive environment is introjected and built into the individuals personality, so that there comes about a capacity actually to be alone. The basis of the capacity to be alone is the experience of being alone in the presence of someone.

I wish to make an examination of the capacity of the individual to be alone, acting on the assumption that this capacity. Providing for the child in health and crisis 1962 64 6. Cooper, 1989 winnicott proposed that it is dependent on the presence of a good internal object, for this presence enables a feeling of confidence in the present and future. The development of the capacity to be alone is discussedfrom a metapsychological point of view. In this way an infant with weak ego organization may. Pdf this paper attempts to present the journey of mental suffering in.

The maturational processes and the facilitating environment. Capacity to be alone is a developmentally acquired ability, considered by object relations. But gradually the individual takes in the egosupportive mother and becomes able to be alone without frequent reference to the mother or mother symbol. The development of the capacity for concern 1963 73 7. He states that, at first, for the infant, there is no experience of its own body as separate from the environment the mother. Cpsqe new catalogue 2019 canadian psychoanalytic society. Winnicottcapacity to be alone addeddate 20151003 06.