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japanese women use cloth pads too!

Thursday 10 April 2008 | I like a cookie

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the good-enough semester

Thursday 10 April 2008 | 2 cookies in the jar

The good-enough mother…starts off with an almost complete adaptation to her infant’s needs, and as time proceeds she adapts less and less completely, gradually, according to the infant’s growing ability to deal with her failure. (DW Winnicott, “Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena,” 1951) The patient makes use of the analyst’s failures. Failures there must be, [...]

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