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Abstract
The concept of soothing and anxiety management as maternal and ego functions is identified and developed as a concept of self-regulation in the psychoanalytic literature. The purpose of this paper is to focus and highlight its therapeutic importance and its application to regulation of anxiety and subsequent therapeutic gains. Clinical examples are offered.
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Sylvia Teitelbaum
Sylvia Teitelbaum, MSW, BCD, is Training Analyst, Supervisor and Faculty Member at the New Jersey Institute for Training in Psychoanalysis and at the Contemporary Center for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies. She maintains a private practice in Teaneck, New Jersey.