Playing and Reality Quotes

“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.”
― Donald Woods Winnicott, Playing and Reality

“The child is alone only in the presence of someone.”
― D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality

“It is not possible to be original except on a basis of tradition.”
― D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality

“It is a joy to be hidden, but a disaster not to be found”
― D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality

“...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.”
― D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality

“Now I want to say: 'After being - doing and being done to. But first, being.”
― D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality

“Psychotherapy takes place at the overlap of two areas of playing: that of the patient and that of the therapist. Psychotherapy has to do with two people playing together. The corollary of this is that where playing is not possible then the work done by the therapist is directed towards bringing the patient from a state of not being able to play into a state of being able to play.”
― D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality

“Dünya vatandaşları aramaktan vazgeçmeyi öğrenmeli, bağlı oldukları toplumsal birimin, toplumun yerel versiyonunun, milliyetçiliğin ya da dini bir mezhebin sınırlarının dışına taşan çok az insan olduğunu kabul etmeliyiz. Aslında psikiyatrik anlamda sağlıklı insanların sağlıklarını ve kişisel tatminlerini toplumun sınırlı bir alanına (örneğin mahalledeki bilardo kulübüne) bağlı olmalarına borçlu olduklarını kabul etmemiz gerekir. Neden olmasın ki? Gittiğimiz her yerde bir Gilbert Murray bulacağımızı sanıyorsak mutsuz oluruz.”
― D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality