Contents:EditorialThe Application of group Analysis in the Childbearing Year: The Function of Holding by Jessica JamesLullabies and rhymes in the Emotional Life of Children by Renata GaddiniA Historical Analysis od Winnicott's "The Use of an Object" by Laurel SamuelsWinnicott and Transference: The Knife-Edge of Belief by Laurence SpurlingA First Approach to Clinical Work..Taken by the Hand of Winnicott by Carolina CastroAn Anthology of Poems collated by Anthony RudolfWinnicott BookshelfCorrespondenceContributors to this Issue

Laurence Spurling is a practising Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist in London and a Senior Member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation. He is Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he co-ordinates and teaches on the counselling and psychotherapy training programmes, and is a Consultant Adult Psychotherapist for the East London NHS Mental Health Trust. He has published widely on clinical issues.