D.W. Winnicott Quotes

#1. We are poor indeed if we are only sane.

D.W. Winnicott

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

D.W. Winnicott

#3. It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.

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#4. Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

D.W. Winnicott

#5. The child is alone only in the presence of someone.

D.W. Winnicott

#6. The most aggressive and therefore the most dangerous words in the languages of the world are to be found in the assertion I AM.

D.W. Winnicott

#7. Nevertheless, with reference to the natural process of childbirth one thing can seldom be forgotten, the fact that the human infant has an absurdly big head.

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#8. Now I want to say: 'After being - doing and being done to. But first, being.

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#9. Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.

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#10. It is not possible to be original except on a basis of tradition.

D.W. Winnicott