Anatomy of Regret: A Developmental View of the Depressive Position and a Critical Turn Toward Love and Creativity in the Transforming Schizoid Personality
Susan Kavaler-Adler, author
Winnicott’s caretaking false personality can be seen in her caretaking for the inanimate objects of her house at the expense of any connection to her husband or children, at least as her husband saw it. When her husband confronted her she was defensive. When he further proclaimed, however, that she had all these hidden split-off parts that would come out to attack him like he was walking in a mind field, she was in shock.