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Winnicott’s concept of psychopathology was very different from Freud’s.
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- comparison: Winnicott, Freud
- Winnicott’s concept of psychopathology was very different from Freud’s.
- Freud
- Freud understood psychopathology in terms of conflicts between:
- the internal drives and
- the external demands of the world
- that what goes wrong is something internal to the person
- only triggered by the outside world.
- This basic idea is still very much alive in reductive psychiatric thinking and CBT, which, following the common dualistic model,
- also locate the problem inside the mind/brain.
- Freud understood psychopathology in terms of conflicts between:
- Winnicott
- By contrast, Winnicott understood psychopathology primarily in terms of trauma or deficit in the relational domain,
- which in turn follows from his inherently interpersonal understanding of the psyche.
- Crucially, what goes wrong is not to be located in the individual per se,
- but in the experiential units that the person was and is involved including, by extension,
- the sociocultural milieu in which they find themselves.
- Freud
- Winnicott’s concept of psychopathology was very different from Freud’s.
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