Notes
1Although Winnicott is most frequently associated with work on the holding process, many others have also contributed to the concept of holding or containment, including CitationBion (1959; Citation1962, Citation1963), CitationLittle (1960), CitationLoewald (1960), CitationSandler (1960), CitationKhan (1963), CitationBalint (1968), CitationKohut, (1971), CitationBollas (1978), and CitationSandback (1993).
Joyce Slochower is Professor Emerita at Hunter College and CUNY, Faculty at the NYU Post Doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, the Steven Mitchell Center, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia and the National Training Program of NIP.
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