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Winnicott, with his important discoveries, created a theory in post- Freudian theory of object relations that looks at psychoanalysis differently, and brought innovations and changes to the psychoanalytic technique. His theory starts emotional development from the beginning of life. In addition to his psychoanalyst identity he had a paediatrician identity and his psychoanalytic thoughts was effected greatly by baby and mother observations that he had done at children hospital. There are important stages in child development, and the most important one is the dependency stage in which the infant needs his mother's holding and her adjustment to his needs. By the failures of a mother in these aspects, the infant may experience deprivation and his development could be arrested or effected seriously and this makes him prone to non- neurotic illnesses or personality organizations. Winnicott, suggests psychoanalytic treatment to be applied according to the diagnosis that the patients distinguished as neurotic or non-neurotic and the technique must involve “holding” for the non-neurotic group of patients to provide regression to dependency till “true self” starts to operate in their psyche. So, by the help of regression to dependency the individual can progress to an independency. Because of these points in his theory, during the course of his work he placed making interpretations behind holding.