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5th November 1964.
Sir,
All of Mother
My letter (shortened with my agreement) carried an unfortunate implication, picked up by Mr. Baron and by A Father. I feel so far from blaming any parent for anything that I failed to see that someone might be hurt by what I wrote. I did not mean that autistic children have necessarily been neglected.
Autism has, of course, a complex etiology; this cannot be properly described or discussed here in this correspondence, but it needs and gets full treatment in professional debate.
It would be a pity, however, if for fear lest someone be hurt, no way could be found to express the point of view that I and some others find to be true, that an infant is fortunate if, at the very beginning, he or she can have “all of mother.”
D W Winnicott F.R.C.P.