Joyce Slochower, Ph.D.

• Relational theory
• Winnicott
• Boundary violations
• Idealization

• Professor Emerita, Department of Psychology, Hunter College & Graduate Center
• Faculty, Steven Mitchell Center
• Faculty, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC)
• Faculty & Supervisor, National Training Program
• Editorial Boards: Psychoanalytic Dialogues, International J. Psycho-Analysis (2007-2011), Ricerca Psicoanalitica, Psychoanalytic Perspectives
• Faculty,Philadelphia Center for Relational Psychoanalysis

2018              

De-idealizing Relational Theory: A Critique from Within. L. Aron, S. Grand & J. Slochower (eds).  London: Routledge.

Decentering Relational Theory: A Comparative Critique. L. Aron, S. Grand & J. Slochower (eds).  London: Routledge.

Finding a creative writing space.  In Wegman, M. Psychodynamics of Writing.  London: Routledge.

D.W. Winnicott: Holding, playing, and moving toward mutuality.  In M.  Charles (Ed.)  Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis.  New York:  Routledge.

Where did that happy ending come from?  Dreaming moments of meeting.In: Moments of Meeting in Psychoanalysis.   New York: Routledge, 178-197.

2017

Dreaming a moment of meeting.  In: Moments of Meeting in Psychoanalysis. Routledge, 178-197.

Relational  heroines and relational excess.  Psychoanal. Dial., 27, 282-299.

Introduction to Panel: Ghosts that Haunt: Sexual Boundary Violations in our  Communities.  Psychoanal. Dial., 27, 61-66.

 Don’t tell anyone.  Psychoanalytic Psychology, 34: 195-200.

2016  

Book Review: Taking the Transference, Reaching for Dreams: Clinical Studies in the Intermediate Area.  by M. Gerard Fromm. Karnac Books, London.            

2015  

Across a lifetime: On the dynamics of commemorative ritual.  In: Aron, L. & Henik, L. (eds), Answering a Question with a Question, Vol. II. Boston:  Academic Studies Press, 273-297.

Analisti genitori e pazienti e bambini? Un’indagine retrospettiva.  Ricerca  Psicoanalitica, 1:9-32.

An erotic dream, an erotic collision.   Annual of Psychoanalysis, 87-104 .

 Collisioni Psicoanalitiche.  Milano, Ferrari Sinibaldi.                      

2014

Idéalizations analytiques et le disavoué: Winnicott, ses patients, et nous. Revue Francaise de Psychanalyse, 78: 1136-1149.

The professional idiom and the psychoanalytic other.  In: Kuchuck, S. (ed), Clinical Implications of the Psychoanalyst’s Experience.  New York: Routledge (pp. 36-48).

Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective (2nd Edition). New York: Routledge. 

Psychoanalytic Collisions: (2nd Edition), New York: Routledge.

2013

Using Winnicott today: A relational perspective.  Revue Roumaine de Psychanalyse. 2: 13-41.

2013

Psychoanalytic mommies and psychoanalytic babies in the consulting room: a long view. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 49:606-628.

Analytic enclaves and analytic outcome: a clinical mystery. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 23: 243-258.

2012 

L’idealizzazione nel rapporto con pazienti e allievi. Ricerca Psicoanalitica, 2: 101-126.

2011 

Gender, splitting and non-recognition in Mad Men. Amer. J. Psychoanal., 71: 381-386.

Out of the analytic shadow: On the dynamics of commemorative ritual. Psychoanal. Dial., 21, 676-690.

Holding, collaborating, colliding: A cross theoretical conversation. Psychoanal. Inq., 13: 501-512.

Analytic idealizations and the disavowed: Winnicott, his patients, and us. Psychoanal. Dial. 21, 3-21.

2010 

As delinquencias secretas do analista. Jornal de Psicanalise, 43 (79):217-235.

Jewish ritual through a psychoanalytic lens. In: Answering a Question with aQuestion: Judaism and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Brighton, MA:Academic Studies Press, pp.105-128.

2009 

Los delitos secretos del analista. Clinica e Investigacion Relacional, 3 :111-126.

2008 

Un uso intersoggettivo del sogno. Ricerca Psicoanalitica, 19:355-376.

Del sostén a la colaboración: Una perspectiva relacional. In Winnicott Hoy. Madrid: Psamica.

2007 

Beyond the consulting room: Ritual, mourning and memory. In: Willock, B., Bohm, L. & Curtis, R. On Deaths and Endings. Karnac, pp. 84-99.

2006 

Ma che cosa vuoi tu? Ricerca Psicoanalitica,: 17:135-162.

Psychoanalytic Collisions, Hillsdale, N.J.: Analytic Press.

2004 

But what do you want? The location of emotional experience. Contemp. Psychoanal., 40:577-602.

2003 

The analyst's secret delinquencies. Psychoanal. Dial., 13:451-469.

  Persistenza degli oggetti di attaccamento e illusioni in psicoanalisi. Ricerca Psicoanalitica, XIV: 277-294.

2002 

L'esperienza dell'interiorità nel processo analitico  Ricerca Psicoanalitica. XIII, 1: 15-34.