The author presents his view that the patient must find a home in the analyst's mind within which to tolerate the work of analysis. Analytic work and change are facilitated by the patient's experience of the analyst's mind as a place within which the patient exists as an internal object, toward whom the analyst relates with agency and freedom. To illustrate his way of working with the patient to accomplish this, the author presents case vignettes from his own practice and from the writing of Mitchell (1997, 2000) and Steiner (1994).