Holding and Psychoanalysis

In Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective , Joyce Slochower brings a contemporary relational framework to bear on Winnicott's notion of the analytic holding environment.& She presents a fresh, thought-provoking, and clinically useful integration of Winnicott's seminal insights with contemporary relational and feminist/psychoanalytic contributions.& Seeking to broaden the concept of holding beyond work with severely regressed patients, she addresses holding in a variety of clinical contexts and focuses especially on holding processes in relation to issues of dependence, self-involvement, and hate.& She also considers clinical work with patients on the edge - patients who seem deperately to need a holding experience that remains paradoxically elusive.

Joyce Anne Slochower, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, and Clinical Professor, Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York University. She is a faculty member of the Object Relations Institute and supervisor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies.