Baby Buddy
10" of pure Love.


THE BABY BUDDIES HAVE ARRIVED. Thanks for all your patience. You can now go to our online store and order your Baby Buddies.

We have six delightful colors to choose from. If you order all six, one is free. Each Baby is named differently for each color.

Red is called Cherry,
Pink is called Rose,
Green is called Sylvan,
Lavender is called Lilac,
Yellow is called Ray, and
Orange is called Yammy.
You can order one or the whole set. But remember, they are in very limited supply. Be sure to order soon for the holidays. We don't want you to be left out. LIMITED EDITION $19.95 Each

My Therapy Buddy T-Shirts
$15.00.
2 or more $12.95 ea.
($2 Rebate)

My Therapy Buddy T-Shirts are available in White only with My Therapy Buddy on the front of the shirt only.

My Therapy Buddy

Theoretical Underpinnings for My Therapy Buddy

My Therapy Buddy is the result of research based on a major Winnicottian contribution to the theory of personality, the concept of the seemingly universal need of a transitional object. (1954, 1960). Donald Woods Winnicott possessed a profound appreciation for the developmental tasks of life’s earliest stages, and in particular, for the role of “the other”. For Winnicott, the fundamental aspect of human experience, a paradox really, was the need for the other to become one’s self. In a most important paper he points out the fact that the capacity to be alone rests upon the capacity to be alone in the presence of the other (1958). In other words, one cannot speak of “self” without at the same time speaking of the “other”. Winnicott’s best-known concept, the transitional object (1951), has been adopted within the framework of psychotherapy. The transitional object is a halfway point between total reliance on the actual presence of the self-object to perform soothing functions and the development of enduring psychic structures within the self which permits self-soothing. The transitional object in the form of a blanket, imaginary companion, or special toy in childhood allows the child to keep the mother/self object present in the child’s consciousness, even in the absence of the mother. In the same vein, adults who have not been able to internalize a “good object” in childhood, need a soothing self object when experiencing anxiety and or depression. Life transitions precipitate strains within the individual due to the stimulation of existing internal conflicts and heightened disequilibrium between the self and the environment. My Therapy Buddy reduces this strain and allows for the regaining of equilibrium, thus helping individuals to cope with past and present trauma, anxiety, depression, and psychic pain. My Therapy Buddy acts as a vehicle for the “internalization” of various maternal-like functions which are considered to be the building blocks of psychic structure and an “optimal” fit with the environment.

Ref. The facilitating Environment Clinical applications of Donald W. Winnicott’s Theory Editors: M. Geraard Fromm, Ph. D. Bruce Lazar Smith, Ph. D., 1989

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