A Communicating theory in Donald W. Winnicott’s clinical approuch

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the main contributions of the English analyst and pediatrician Donald W. Winnicott on theory of communication in the maturational process. I discuss primarily the non-verbal communicating established between mother-infant pair and expressed through mirroring and subjectivity, to then discuss three forms of not-communicating: the simple not-communicating, related to peaceful states and not experienced integration the baby; the active not-communicating, expression of mental health and originally from maternal and child relationship, lived through gestures and expressions or the earliest forms of verbal language and, finally, the reactive not-communicating, essentially pathological and arising by environmental failures during the maturational process.