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? Ina Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective (second Edition),a Joyce Slochowera brings a contemporary relational framework to bear on Winnicott's notion of the holding environment.a Revisiting the clinical impact and theoretical underpinnings of holding, Slochower explores its function in those moments when "ordinary" interpretive or interactive worka cannot be tolerated. a Slochower expands thea holding construct beyond the needs of dependent patientsa by examininga its therapeutic function across the clinical spectrum.a Emphasizing holding's coconstructed nature, Slochower explores the contribution of both patient and analyst the holding moment.a This second Editiona introducesa 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;a the third movesa outsidea the consulting room to explore how holding functions in acts of memorial ritual across the lifespan. A final chapter presentsa Slochower'sa latest ideas about holding's clinical function in buffering shame states.Integrating Winnicott's seminal contributions with contemporary relational and feminist/psychoanalytic perspectives,a Joyce Slochowera addressesa the therapeutic limitations of both interpretive and interactive clinical work. There are times, she argues, when patients cannot toleratea explicita evidence of the analyst's separate presencea and instead need a holding experience.a Slochowera conceptualizes holding within a relational frame that includes both deliberate and enacted elements. a In her view, the analyst does not hold alone; patient and analyst each participate in the establishment of a co-constructed holding space. a Slochowera pays particular attention to the analyst's experience during moments of holding, offering rich clinical vignettes that illustrate the complex struggle that holding entails. a Shea 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 involvesa thea transition toward collaboration-a move awaya froma holding and into an explicitly intersubjective therapeutic frame.Holding and Psychoanalysisa offers aa sophisticateda integration of Winnicottian and relational thoughta that privileges the dynamic impact of holding moments on both patient and analyst.a a Thoroughly grounded in case examples, the book offers compelling clinical solutions to common therapeutic knots. a Clearly written and carefully explicated, it will be an important addition to the libraries of psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists.