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HOLDING AND PSYCHOANALYSIS OP (Relational Perspectives Book Series, V. 5)
HOLDING AND PSYCHOANALYSIS OP - Relational Perspectives Book Series, V. 5 Author:Joyce Anne Slochower In EM Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective /EM , 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/... more »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.« less