ABSTRACT
Donald Winnicott was capable of dazzling intuitions with and for people, mothers, fathers, and children. He coined the phrase "sacred moments", and fortunately there are hundreds of these recorded in his writing to go on learning from. J. Bowlby was born at the height of the British Empire, his father was a surgeon, and, like Winnicott's, was knighted for organizing army hospitals during the first war. By the 1950s Bowlby was much sought after in the Psychoanalytical Society for his administrative and public abilities; he was a most efficient training secretary and vice president. By the mid 1960s, Bowlby was working on his great trilogy, Attachment, Separation, and Loss, which took till 1980 to complete. The first volume, Attachment, is concerned with proximity-seeking by both mother and child. Bowlby did not show the individualistic genius that Winnicott possessed, but was stirred by a kind and passionate indignation, that perhaps was not greatly to the fore in Winnicott.
