Using understandable terms, he introduced concepts and phrases such as "the good-enough mother" (Winnicott et al. 1987 ), "the true and false self" (Winnicott 1994 ), "holding environment" (Winnicott 1993 ; Winnicott et al. 1994 ), "the transitional object and transitional phenomena" (...
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and offer a “therapeutic” solution to them.(11)But the point has been made:the artist was on the psychic scene long before the scientific psychologist.Donald Winnicott also accepts the artist’s precedence, qualifying it in a similar way.The poet’s transient “flashes of insight” may illu...