Winnicott and Henry

dialogues about life and clinic

Abstract

This article aims to promote a dialogue between the thinking of Winnicott and Henry, thinking about how this approach can contribute to the process of understanding and applying Henry’s thinking in the clinic, as well as enriching the phenomenological framework proposed by Winnicott. This construction is structured as a phenomenological narrative review. As a result, it can be noted that when reading some points of Henry’s theory under Winnicott’s lens, one can see an enrichment regarding the concept of self-proof, incarnation, double appearance and immanence, as well as an expansion of what can be understood as unfolding for a phenomenologically inspired psychological clinic.