# Donald Winnicott

English paediatrician and psychoanalyst who pioneered object relations through the true self, false self, and transitional object.

**Lived:** 1896–1971 (b. Plymouth, Devon, England)
**Nationality:** English
**Training:** Medicine (Cambridge, St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College); psychoanalysis with James Strachey (1923–1933) and Joan Riviere (1936–)
**Affiliation:** British Independent Group of the British Psychoanalytical Society; Paddington Green Children's Hospital

## Key works

- *Clinical Notes on Disorders of Childhood* (1931)
- *Getting To Know Your Baby* (1945)
- *Collected Papers: Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis* (1958)
- *The Capacity to Be Alone* (1958)
- *Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment: Studies in the Theory of Emotional Development* (1965)
- *Playing and Reality* (1971)