Joyce Slochower, Ph.D., ABPP, is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She serves as faculty and supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, the Steven Mitchell Center, the National Training Program of the National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP), the Philadelphia Center for Relational Studies, and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC).

Dr. Slochower is on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ricerca Psicoanalitica, and Psychoanalytic Perspectives. She is also a board member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP).

She has authored over 100 articles on psychoanalytic theory and technique. Her books include:
   •   Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective (2nd ed., Routledge, 2014)
   •   Psychoanalytic Collisions (2nd ed., Routledge, 2014)
   •   Psychoanalysis and the Unspoken (Routledge, 2023)

She is also co-editor, with Lew Aron and Sue Grand, of:
   • De-idealizing Relational Theory: A Critique from Within
   • Decentering Relational Theory: A Comparative Critique (Routledge, 2018)

Dr. Slochower maintains a private practice in New York City, where she sees individuals and couples and runs supervision and study groups.

Selected Publications

For a full list of publications, please contact the speaker or visit her professional profile.

Recent Works

   •   2024
      •   Holding On and Letting Go: Discussion of Robert Grossmark’s Essay, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 22(2), 125–132.
      •   Adoption: Encompassing Loss and Absence, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 1–3.
      •   Ending, Not Quite Ending, and Not Ending at All, Psychoanalytic Quarterly (in press).
      •   Inside Out and Upside Down: Winnicott’s Fear of Breakdown, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 34(5): 634–636.
      •   Psychoanalysis and the Unspoken, New York/London: Routledge.
      •   Factions Are Back, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 72(4): 561–582.
   •   2022–2023
      •   The Absent Witness: Mourning, Virtually, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 19(3): 253–268.
      •   Sequels, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 70(5): 845–873.
      •   Against the Grain, in J. Salberg (Ed.), Psychoanalytic Credos: Personal and Professional Journeys of Psychoanalysts (Routledge).
      •   A Few Regrets, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 31(2): 166–180.
   •   2020
      •   On Behalf of the Child: Winnicott’s Work During the War Years, JAPA, 68(5): 969–977.
      •   Resist This, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 30: 64–72.
      •   Don’t Tell Anyone, in C. Levin (Ed.), Sexual Boundary Trouble in Psychoanalysis (Routledge).
   •   2018
      •   Co-editor of De-idealizing Relational Theory: A Critique from Within and Decentering Relational Theory: A Comparative Critique (Routledge).
      •   Going Too Far: Relational Heroines and Relational Excess, in De-idealizing Relational Theory (Routledge).
      •   D.W. Winnicott: Holding, Playing, and Moving Toward Mutuality, in Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Routledge).
   •   Books
      •  Psychoanalysis and the Unspoken (2023, Routledge)
      •  Psychoanalytic Collisions (2nd ed., 2014, Routledge)
      •  Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective (2nd ed., 2014, Routledge)

Amanda, our featured presenter, brought forth the “lost” book, which reminds us of the frightening resonance between Beradt’s historical dream archive and the modern anxieties of our increasingly authoritarian times. Amanda has lectured to psychoanalytic audiences around the world. She will be joining us via Zoom.

www.amandarubin.com

Over the past three decades, Amanda Rubin has directed and produced documentaries on cultural history, music, the arts, and science. These have been featured on BBC, Channel 4, The History Channel, and Discovery+, among other notable channels. Relevant recent work includes:

• 21st Century Mythologies (Director/Producer), which unpacks the 1957 book “Mythologies” by French philosopher Roland Barthes, laying bare the mythmaking at the heart of consumer culture.
• Qatar- Inside the Pearl (Producer), which travels to the heart of the world’s richest country to reveal an ambitious story of obsessive collecting, cultural curation, and nation-building by the once Bedouin and pearl-diving ruling families.

Amanda Rubin is currently developing a new film, The Third Reich of Dreams, with Snowstorm Productions. This animated drama tells the story of Charlotte Beradt (1907-1986), a Berlin-based journalist who collected the dreams of her Jewish and non-Jewish friends and neighbours during Hitler’s rise to power. At significant personal risks, Charlotte smuggled these nocturnal diaries, written in code, out of Germany.

It was not until the 1960s, while living in New York, that Charlotte revisited the dream diaries and published her book “The Third Reich of Dreams”, in which she explored common symbols, themes, and even warnings that had appeared in the collective unconscious of a traumatised nation.

Charlotte’s dream anthology was out of print for over forty years until Amanda Rubin discovered and acquired the ‘lost’ English language rights. It is thanks to her tenacity and vision that “The Third Reich of Dreams” was once again published in English in April 2025 by Princeton University Press to excellent reviews.

Presentation Paper

• Dreams and the Third Reich – Shadows within our cultural unconscious, Charlotte Beradt

The Third Reich of Dreams, by Charlotte Beradt

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PhD; MA (hons); MHSc, Psychotherapy (hons); Registered Psychotherapist; MAPANZ

Kerry is the Head of Department, Psychotherapy and Counselling, Auckland University of Technology (AUT).

Kerry has published on various topics relating to psychotherapy theory and practice and is currently co-editing a book on hermeneutic research in psychotherapy. She also works as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice.

Presentation Paper

• Is there a future for psychotherapy in Aotearoa – Dr Kerry Thomas-Anttila.

Psychotherapist

Dr John Farnsworth is a registered psychotherapist in private practice in Dunedin. He has worked extensively with groups, communities and individuals for over thirty years. Formerly NZAP’s Chair of Public Issues, he is also a sociologist who has published widely across social, psychological, ethical and technology fields.

Psychotherapist

Kyle MacDonald is a registered psychotherapist with 25 years’ clinical experience across public and private sectors. Manukura Chair of the Psychotherapy Board of Aotearoa New Zealand, co-director of the Robert Street Clinic, and co-host of The Nutters Club. A committed advocate for accessible, effective mental health care and public understanding of psychotherapy

Presentation Paper

• Encounter Group with AI – Kyle MacDonald & Dr John Farnsworth.