How We Are Held by Others

Psychotherapy outcome studies consistently fail to find a correlation between the therapist’s theoretical perspective and the impact of the therapy; what does affect whether the work prospers or founders is the quality of the relationship (Blatt, 2007). There is nothing surprising about this. In every other situation a person’s growth depends on the way he is being held by the other.

from The Mystery of Analytical Work: Weavings from Jung and Bion, by Barbara Stevens Sullivan