The Creative Self

The Creative Self engages with the work of the psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott to develop alternative ways of thinking about key issues at the heart of pedagogy; specifically pedagogic relationships, creativity, defiance and compliance.

Tamara Bibby is an independent researcher and writer, previously at University College London, Institute of Education, UK.

1. Introduction Part I: Things that go right 2. The origins and meaning of wellness 3. Becoming a person: Winnicott's developmental story 4. Communication. Maybe. 5. Creativity and play: listening to oneself Part II: Things that go wrong 6. The roots of compliance and non-compliance: True and False Self Structures revisted 7. All the good girls and boys: compliance and its vicissitudes 8. Defiance: insult or sign of hope? Part III: Working it through 9. Hate and being a good enough teacher 10. Institutions: both mad and maddening