Abstract
Winnicott's trasitional object concept has generated vigorous theoretical inquiry and has been applied broadly in practice. His hypothesis that transitional object attachments are healthy and universal has fostered assumptions about psychosocial health and disturbance that may not apply across the range of clients seen in practice. The purpose of this article is to heighten clinicians' awareness of the wide normative sociocultural variation in transitional object attachments. A review of the theory is followed by presentation of findings from cross-cultural studies. The article concludes with a discussion of implications for theory-building and practice.
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