Wayne Kigerl asked Charles C. McCormack:

Who is your favorite psychiatrist, psychological thinker, or some facsimile thereof, would take to the park, if you were to pack a picnic basket of the psyche?

Charles C. McCormack My favorite psychological thinker is D.W. Winnicott, both a pediatrician and psychoanalyst now long deceased. Although he was criticized by some for not addressing the role of aggression he had a way of embracing the reader in a firm hold. Indeed, it is he that coined many psychoanalytic terms such as the holding environment, potential space as being the area in which real relationship and spirituality (among other things) occurs, the "good enough mother", the role delinquency can have as an indication of hope. He also is said to have welcomed patients into his home office and to have served them tea. In other words, he treated them like valued guests and made them at home. What else need I say?

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