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Thank you! Coincidentally AD4E has a speaker today called James Barnes who published pieces that come to the same conclusion. Cf a quote from https://tapmagazine.org/all-articles/carl-rogers-meets-donald-winnicott :
"if the human condition is viewed as fundamentally extroverted, with development seen as relational and socially situated, the causal focus shifts to the environment, particularly primary caregivers. Rogers and Winnicott unite on the view that the vicissitudes of the world, not of the instincts, are primarily responsible for the ways in which we come to suffer psychologically and emotionally."
and: "Rogers and Winnicott came to essentially the same conclusion: The roots of both development and healing lie in processes that emerge out of, and thoroughly depend on, an environment of care, as facilitated by a psychologically attuned and regulating other. They also fundamentally agreed that our nature is essentially indeterminate and unconflicted, rather than tragically determined by conflicting psychic or biological forces. This viewpoint allowed them to be concerned instead with freedom, creativity, and becoming. "