Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Approach

Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective by Joyce Slochower is a groundbreaking book that offers a fresh and clinically useful integration of Winnicott's seminal insights with contemporary relational and feminist/psychoanalytic contributions.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the holding environment, exploring its impact on patient and analyst alike.

Through case vignettes and in-depth analysis, Slochower demonstrates how the holding process can be used to address issues of dependence, self-involvement, and hate.

The book also considers clinical work with patients "on the edge" - those who seem desperately in need of a holding experience that remains paradoxically elusive.

With its relational understanding of holding, this book highlights the co-construction of an essential illusion of analytic attunement between patient and analyst, protecting the patient from potentially disruptive aspects of the analyst's subjective presence.

Don't miss out on this thought-provoking and clinically useful integration of Winnicott's work with contemporary relational and feminist/psychoanalytic perspectives.

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