An expert on the field

Donald Winnicott was an English pediatrician and psychiatrist, who practiced the psychoanalysis. He was born in Plymouth, England, on the April 7th of 1896 and died in London, England, on the January 28th of 1971.  He was from the third generation after Freud. He has two big theories in the field: the true self and false self theory and the transitional object theory. As he was a pediatrician, his researches were focus on babies and their relationship with their mothers.

I like him 'cause I think he was a brave psychoanalyst, 'cause he proposed things that were opposite to the theories of the psychoanalysis of the age. He situated the concept of "self", giving it a meaning more powerful than "I"s meaning. The original psychoanalysis says that there's no something like "personality", the "I" is just a compilation of identifications. He said there was something called "true self", where it was a space for authenticity. He was also brave when he was one of the few who opposed to the electroshock, based on the science.