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Originally Posted by Lrad123
Thanks, I can read the abstract which is interesting and you’ve given me hours of google-worthy material. I also thought this was interesting (and nice and simple) re: holding/containment which I think is exactly what’s going on:
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I like this one. Your T did it abruptly, maybe like ripping off a band aid. We are not infants, and maybe a protracted reduction prolongs the ability to go to the next level and growth.
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Winnicott’s ‘holding’ - Winnicott first used the term ‘holding environment’ (1953, 1971) to describe the optimal environment for ‘good enough’ parenting. He suggested that emotional problems developed when a person had been deprived such holding environments in childhood and that a
level of holding was critical to the therapeutic environment.
A key function of the mother’s early holding is to insulate her baby from the impact of stress, carefully choosing the moments to allow for frustrations to be allowed slowly into the child’s experience.
The good-enough mother...starts off with an almost complete adaptation to her infant's needs, and as time proceeds she adapts less and less completely, gradually, according to the infant's growing ability to deal with her failure. (Winnicott, 1953) Typically, a good-enough parent gradually increases the amount of time between a child’s emotional expression of a reaction/need (e.g. crying) and the meeting of that need (feeding, comforting). Through this process, infants recognise they can survive being overwhelmed by emotions/needs, until the parent eventually comes and provides.
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