PSYCHOLOGIST

Donald Winnicott

1896 - 1971

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Donald Woods Winnicott (7 April 1896 – 25 January 1971) was an English paediatrician and psychoanalyst who was especially influential in the field of object relations theory and developmental psychology. He was a leading member of the British Independent Group of the British Psychoanalytical Society, President of the British Psychoanalytical Society twice (1956–1959 and 1965–1968), and a close associate of British writer and psychoanalyst Marion Milner. Winnicott is best known for his ideas on the true self and false self, the "good enough" parent, and borrowed from his second wife, Clare, arguably his chief professional collaborator, the notion of the transitional object. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Donald Winnicott has received more than 943,521 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Donald Winnicott is the 39th most popular psychologist (up from 42nd in 2019), the 413th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 421st in 2019) and the most popular British Psychologist.

Donald Winnicott is most famous for his work on the theory of the "good enough mother."

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Donald Winnicott ranks 39 out of 235. Before him are Gordon Allport, Paul Ekman, Jerome Bruner, Eric Berne, Lawrence Kohlberg, and Hans Eysenck. After him are John Bowlby, Milton H. Erickson, Wolfgang Köhler, Elton Mayo, Alfred Kinsey, and Max Wertheimer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Donald Winnicott ranks 24. Before him are Milena Jesenská, Felix Steiner, Dziga Vertov, Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Eugenio Montale, and Oswald Mosley. After him are Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Buenaventura Durruti, Carl Ferdinand Cori, Italo Balbo, Ernst Udet, and Anna Anderson. Among people deceased in 1971, Donald Winnicott ranks 19. Before him are Theodor Svedberg, Mátyás Rákosi, Lin Biao, Giorgos Seferis, Harold Lloyd, and Arne Jacobsen. After him are Wilhelm List, Franz Stangl, Gotthard Heinrici, François Duvalier, D. B. Cooper, and Igor Tamm.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Donald Winnicott ranks 413 out of 8,785. Before him are Edgar the Peaceful (943), Charles Lyell (1797), Henry Moseley (1887), Bob Hoskins (1942), Anne Hathaway (1556), and John Wesley (1703). After him are Robert Plant (1948), Thomas Cook (1808), Anne Neville (1456), Bobby Moore (1941), Christopher Wren (1632), and William Godwin (1756).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among psychologists born in United Kingdom, Donald Winnicott ranks 1. After him are John Bowlby (1907), Raymond Cattell (1905), Edward B. Titchener (1867), Charles Spearman (1863), R. D. Laing (1927), William McDougall (1871), Frederic Bartlett (1886), Havelock Ellis (1859), Alexander Bain (1818), Ernest Jones (1879), and Brenda Milner (1918).

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