I WAS LOOKING FOR A DIFFERENT TREATMENT Tania M. M. Granato Tania M. J. Aiello-Vaisberg At the Institute of Psychology at the University of Sa ˜o Paulo, Brazil, we have been conducting research about different psy- choanalytic frameworks, based on Donald Winnicott’s ideas about the patient’s creative potential. This includes a workshop combining a sewing and psychotherapy program geared to help pregnant women prepare for motherhood. It is very common in Brazil for pregnant women to take classes on motherhood at a hospital. Although these classes are designed to dispel anxieties about childbirth, breast-feeding, and baby care, sometimes the information about possible complica- tions in pregnancy can be alarming, so we try to provide a hold- ing environment where they can feel safe as they explore their fears and concerns about maternity. Our confidence in the cre- ativity of our patients (Winnicott, 1966, 1970), has allowed us to work as facilitators of their emotional development as we de- velop frameworks designed to keep the dialogue between clini- cal demands and methodological coherence alive. My work with one patient, whom I will call Violet, illustrates the work we are doing. (All the names in this case history have been changed, and I have substituted the names of flowers for their real names.) When I first met Violet, she was four months pregnant and looking for “a different therapy.” Years before, when Violet was sixteen, and right after the death of her father, she began to suffer from panic attacks. Despite the fact that these had been largely mitigated by the several psychotherapies she underwent at that time, the painful symptoms returned during pregnancy. She was particularly terrified at the idea of being seized with Psychoanalytic Review, 95(4), August 2008  2008 N.P.A.P.