ABSTRACT
Two thousand five hundred years ago, the Greek physician Hippocrates had a similar opinion to Dr Britton and Marion Milner regarding this particular point. He was quoted as saying, “Perhaps it is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has”. Dr Britton states that the history of the development of the contradictions in science, philosophy, and the arts has lead to a polarization in understanding the connections between mind and body. When Dr Britton describes the importance of belief and uncertainty as a forerunner to knowledge and to further psychological development or to its opposite results, he is describing only one aspect of the experience that gives birth to the mind and its links with the body. Winnicott describes this experience of psychic birth, as the process of illusionment and disillusionment in the journey towards separating the subject from the object.
