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Holding and Psychoanalysis, 2nd edition - A Relational Perspective (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Holding and Psychoanalysis, 2nd edition - A Relational Perspective (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Is there a baby in the relational consulting room? How and when
can/should we try to hold our patients? What happens to the
analyst's subjectivity when she tries to hold? In Holding and
Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective (second Edition), Joyce
Slochower brings a contemporary relational framework to bear on
Winnicott's notion of the holding environment. Revisiting the
clinical impact and theoretical underpinnings of holding, Slochower
explores its function in those moments when "ordinary" interpretive
or interactive work cannot be tolerated. Slochower expands the
holding construct beyond the needs of dependent patients by
examining its therapeutic function across the clinical spectrum.
Emphasizing holding's coconstructed nature, Slochower explores the
contribution of both patient and analyst the holding moment. This
second Edition introduces new theoretical and clinical material,
including four additional chapters. Two of these address holding's
impact on the patient's capacity to access, articulate and process
affect states; the third moves outside the consulting room to
explore how holding functions in acts of memorial ritual across the
lifespan. A final chapter presents Slochower's latest ideas about
holding's clinical function in buffering shame states. Integrating
Winnicott's seminal contributions with contemporary relational and
feminist/psychoanalytic perspectives, Joyce Slochower addresses the
therapeutic limitations of both interpretive and interactive
clinical work. There are times, she argues, when patients cannot
tolerate explicit evidence of the analyst's separate presence and
instead need a holding experience. Slochower conceptualizes holding
within a relational frame that includes both deliberate and enacted
elements. In her view, the analyst does not hold alone; patient and
analyst each participate in the establishment of a co-constructed
holding space. Slochower pays particular attention to the analyst's
experience during moments of holding, offering rich clinical
vignettes that illustrate the complex struggle that holding
entails. She also addresses the therapeutic limits of holding and
invites the reader to consider the analyst's contribution to these
failures. Slochower locates the holding process within a broader
clinical framework that involves the transition toward
collaboration-a move away from holding and into an explicitly
intersubjective therapeutic frame. Holding and Psychoanalysis
offers a sophisticated integration of Winnicottian and relational
thought that privileges the dynamic impact of holding moments on
both patient and analyst. Thoroughly grounded in case examples, the
book offers compelling clinical solutions to common therapeutic
knots. Clearly written and carefully explicated, it will be an
important addition to the libraries of psychoanalysts and
psychoanalytic psychotherapists.
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