16 Quotes by D.W. Winnicott

It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.

...there is for many a poverty of play and cultural life because, although the person had a place for erudition, there was a relative failure on the part of those who constitute the child's world of persons to introduce cultural elements at the appropriate phases of the person's personality development.

The alternative to being is reacting, and reacting interrupts being and annihilates.

We are poor indeed if we are only sane.

What is good is always being destroyed

Fear of breakdown is the fear of a breakdown that has already been experienced.

The child is alone only in the presence of someone.

I once said: ‘there is no such thing as an infant’ meaning, of course, that wherever one finds an infant one finds maternal care, and without maternal care there would be no infant.

What is good is always being destroyed.