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Donald Woods Winnicott was a paediatrician and psychoanalyst for both adults and children. He was a Training Analyst of the Institute of Psychoanalysis and its President on two separate occasions (1956–1959 and 1965–1968). His contribution to child development has been internationally acknowledged since the 1960s when his most popular book was published by Penguin Books The Child, the Family and the Outside World. The full realization of his radical contribution to the development of psychoanalysis is increasingly receiving acknowledgement.
The following chronological information on Winnicott’s life and work is presented according to the evolutionary phases of Winnicott’s work as seen in Chapter 3. This chapter was first published for the Education Section of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis (Abram 2008) and adapted from the following chronologies: Davis and Wallbridge 1981; Kahr 1996; Phillips 1988; Rodman 2003.
1896 – Born on 7 April, third child and only son of John Frederick Winnicott and Elizabeth Martha Woods, in Plymouth, Devon
1910 – Leaves home to board at The Leys School in Cambridge
1914 – Pre-medical course University of Cambridge, Jesus College
1917 – Surgeon-probationer in the Royal Navy – medical officer on a destroyer at the end of World War I
1919 – Looking for a book on dreams, because he became aware that he was not remembering his dreams on returning from the war, he discovers Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams and Pfister’s ThePsychoanalytic Method (1915)
1920–1922 – Qualifies in medicine and becomes a full member of the Royal College of Physicians and begins to specialize in paediatrics