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Top 15 D.W. Winnicott Quotes (2025 Update)

D.W. Winnicott Quote: “It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.”

1. “It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.”

— D.W. Winnicott

D.W. Winnicott Quote: “Fear of breakdown is the fear of a breakdown that has already been experienced.”

2. “Fear of breakdown is the fear of a breakdown that has already been experienced.”

— D.W. Winnicott

D.W. Winnicott Quote: “I once said: ‘there is no such thing as an infant’ meaning, of course, that wherever one finds an infant one finds maternal care, and without maternal care there would be no infant.”

3. “I once said: ‘there is no such thing as an infant’ meaning, of course, that wherever one finds an infant one finds maternal care, and without maternal care there would be no infant.”

— D.W. Winnicott

D.W. Winnicott Quote: “The child is alone only in the presence of someone.”

4. “The child is alone only in the presence of someone.”

— D.W. Winnicott

D.W. Winnicott Quote: “The alternative to being is reacting, and reacting interrupts being and annihilates.”

5. “The alternative to being is reacting, and reacting interrupts being and annihilates.”

— D.W. Winnicott

D.W. Winnicott Quote: “It is not possible to be original except on a basis of tradition.”

6. “It is not possible to be original except on a basis of tradition.”

— D.W. Winnicott

D.W. Winnicott Quote: “Now I want to say: ‘After being – doing and being done to. But first, being.”

7. “Now I want to say: ‘After being – doing and being done to. But first, being.”

— D.W. Winnicott

D.W. Winnicott Quote: “The life of a healthy individual is characterized by fears, conflicting feelings, doubts, frustrations, as much as by the positive features. The main thing is that the man or woman feels he or she is living his or her own life, taking responsibility for action or inaction, and able to take credit for success and blame for failure. In one language it can be said that the individual has emerged from dependence to independence, or to autonomy.”

8. “The life of a healthy individual is characterized by fears, conflicting feelings, doubts, frustrations, as much as by the positive features. The main thing is that the man or woman feels he or she is living his or her own life, taking responsibility for action or inaction, and able to take credit for success and blame for failure. In one language it can be said that the individual has emerged from dependence to independence, or to autonomy.”

— D.W. Winnicott

D.W. Winnicott Quote: “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.”

9. “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

D.W. Winnicott Quote: “We are poor indeed if we are only sane.”

10. “We are poor indeed if we are only sane.”

— D.W. Winnicott

D.W. Winnicott Quote: “What is good is always being destroyed.”

11. “What is good is always being destroyed.”

— D.W. Winnicott

D.W. Winnicott Quote: “Somewhere in the scheme of things there can be room for everyone to live creatively. This involves retaining something personal, perhaps secret, that is unmistakably yourself. If nothing else, try breathing, something no one can do for you.”

12. “Somewhere in the scheme of things there can be room for everyone to live creatively. This involves retaining something personal, perhaps secret, that is unmistakably yourself. If nothing else, try breathing, something no one can do for you.”

— D.W. Winnicott

D.W. Winnicott Quote: “Poets, philosophers and seers have always concerned themselves with the idea of a true self, and the betrayal of the self has been a typical example of the unacceptable.”

13. “Poets, philosophers and seers have always concerned themselves with the idea of a true self, and the betrayal of the self has been a typical example of the unacceptable.”

— D.W. Winnicott

D.W. Winnicott Quote: “At the beginning these two things, the real and the imaginative life, are one and the same thing, because the infant at the beginning does not perceive objectively, but lives in a subjective state, being the creator of all. Gradually, in health the infant becomes able to perceive a world that is a not-me world, and to attain this state the infant must be cared for well enough at the time of absolute dependence.”

14. “At the beginning these two things, the real and the imaginative life, are one and the same thing, because the infant at the beginning does not perceive objectively, but lives in a subjective state, being the creator of all. Gradually, in health the infant becomes able to perceive a world that is a not-me world, and to attain this state the infant must be cared for well enough at the time of absolute dependence.”

— D.W. Winnicott

D.W. Winnicott Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— D.W. Winnicott

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