ABSTRACT
The purpose of this text is to invite readers to a period of sober reflection on the clinical and theoretical thinking of Winnicott and other Middle Group authors, all from the British Psychoanalytical Association, on the matter of creativity being closely connected with health, and the possibility of living creatively using the healing phenomena. In this chapter, the author want specifically to discuss the healing phenomena. Mannoni, comments on Winnicott’s Freudian tradition and refers to sources where the English analyst might have taken from works by psychoanalysis’s founder, where his most important conceptions are found. Winnicott writes that the flight into sanity is not health, but that the people are truly poor if they are simply sane. Winnicott wrote, in The Family and Individual Development, that real growth eventually takes the child to an adult sense of responsibility, especially to provide security for the children of the next generation.
