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object relations

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D. W. Winnicott

British pediatrician and psychoanalyst who developed object relations theory — introducing the concepts of the transitional object (a child's blanket or stuffed animal), the good-enough mother, and the true vs. false self — making him the most practical and humane of the post-Freudian psychoanalysts.

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