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)