https://bookshelfpicks.com/tags/donald-winnicott/Recent content in Donald Winnicott on BookShelfPicksHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usWed, 25 Feb 2026 11:15:09 +0000https://bookshelfpicks.com/2026/02/what-makes-a-healthy-mind-psychiatrists-key-insights/Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:15:09 +0000https://bookshelfpicks.com/2026/02/what-makes-a-healthy-mind-psychiatrists-key-insights/What Happened The Marginalian recently highlighted key insights from Donald Winnicott’s posthumous collection “Home Is Where We Start from: Essays by a Psychoanalyst,” focusing on his revolutionary understanding of healthy relationships and mental wellness. Winnicott, who practiced as a pediatrician and psychoanalyst for over 40 years, developed what he called the “care-cure” approach—distinguishing between relationships that truly heal versus those that merely treat symptoms. The analysis explores Winnicott’s definition of mental health as “the ability of one individual to enter imaginatively and yet accurately into the thoughts and feelings and hopes and fears of another person; also to allow the other person to do the same to us.