ABSTRACT
The pared down description of this first session enables the processes of containment and holding to be brought into distinct focus, and it is the concentrating on essentials that gives this session such a strong form. I had the image in my mind of a mother looking at her child who had hurt his knee, holding the child with her gaze on his face, a stripping away of inessentials, and concentrating on the important part—the containing of the pain by the link of understanding.
