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The capacity to be alone depends on the sense of being held

The capacity to be alone depends on the sense of being held

Psyche Magazine · Elizabeth Burns Dyer

March 27, 202611m 47s

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Show Notes

The overwhelm of grief and parenthood showed me what psychoanalysis assumes – we need to be held to feel safe in solitude.

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Topics

GriefAttachment and parentingPsychoanalysis and the unconscious