Joyce Slochower
Biographic Data
| ID | 4234439 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joyce Slochower |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joyce |
| FAMILY NAME | Slochower |
| SIGNATURE | SLOCHOWER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6937-708X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Loewald and Winnicott’s Theoretical Convergence
This essay aims to identify some fascinating overlaps in Loewald’s and Winnicott’s perspectives on the emergence of autonomy in tandem with a capacity for genuine two-person engagement. Comparing Loewald’s “The Waning of the Oedipus Complex” and Winnicott’s “The Use of the Object and Relating through Identifications,” I address the striking similarities (and some differences) in the two theorists’ developmental and clinical visions. Each moved ps…
Can the Center Hold? Responding to Our Socio-Political Surround
Ending, Not Quite Ending, and Not Ending At All
I consider the place of termination in contemporary psychoanalytic practice. A more flexible approach to therapeutic endings represents one dimension of a broader paradigm shift away from rule-boundedness and toward clinical flexibility. In any event, final, less-than-final, and absent goodbyes have always been part of psychoanalytic reality despite the power of our termination ideal. I first describe the broader move toward flexibility within th…
Inside Out and Upside Down
Winnicott had a delightfully idiosyncratic way of engaging paradox and playing with ideas. Indeed, it was Winnicott’s wont to turn clinical phenomena on their heads; he regularly surprised us by in
Factions are Back
Sequels
The termination ideal for analytic work stands at a considerable distance from clinical reality; “complete” terminations are rare indeed. This gap is perhaps best explored by considering sequels—instances in which ex-analyst and ex-patient become nonsexual friends post treatment. The meanings and implications of these post-termination friendships—their complexities, problematic edges, serious difficulties, and the potential therapeutic benefit of…
A Few Regrets
This essay moves beyond my earlier focus on relational excess and turns a critical eye on my own work. After describing my relational holding model, I address its limitations—both theoretical and clinical. What is problematic in the implicit analytic ideal embedded in the concept of holding? How does this vision of therapeutic process both add to and narrow the clinical arena? What is absent, overlooked, or just plain wrong in this perspective? I…
Resist This
The concept of resistance has fallen out of favor, particularly in relational psychoanalysis. We’ve associated “resistance” with traditional analytic models—with the idea that therapeutic action lies in overcoming a patient’s defensiveness via interpretation. I invite resistance back into relational thinking by relocating the concept dyadically—in the realm of enactment—and by considering the potential presence of individual resistance within a r…
On Behalf of the Child
Decentering Relational Theory
De-Idealizing Relational Theory
Don’t tell anyone
Taking the transference, reaching towards dreams
Gender, Splitting and Non-Recognition in Mad Men
Erotic Complications
The author argues that erotic transference-countertransference dynamics present particular complexities when they develop between gender constellations other than male analyst and female patient. She addresses the dynamics of a complicated erotic transference in concert with an aversive countertransference response as it evolved between a female analyst and female patient. The intense erotic transference that developed defied classification as ei…
The psychodynamics of obesity
Le modele «psychodynamique» cense rendre compte de l'obesite est controverse. Bien que la mise a l'epreuve empirique de ce modele psychanalytique ait mis en evidence certaines lacunes concernant le role de l'affect dans le comportement alimentaire, de recentes donnees experimentales confirment le caractere central de cette dynamique affective
The psychodynamics of obesity
Excessive eating
The Effects of Life Stress and Weight on Mood and Eating
Anxiety, perceived control, and eating in obese and normal weight persons
Emotional Labeling and Overeating in Obese and Normal Weight Individuals
It was hypothesized that obese individuals respond to unlabeled high arousal by overeating, while no such response was predicted for labeled high arousal states. Obese and normal weight subjects were led to believe that they were hearing their own heart beat, and that it was either fast or slow. A label for this heart rate either was or was not provided, and subjects' eating behavior was measured unobtrusively. The results supported these hypothe…
Externality in the nonobese
The study considered whether external responsiveness in normal weight people would predict changes in eating behavior and weight following major alteration of environmetnal food cues. Normal weight children were tested for externality on measures of eating, slide recall, and extremity of affective responsiveness during the first week of a summer camp, and were weighed biweekly thereafter. There was a significant correlation between externality an…
Fat chance for a favor
The behavior of obese individuals has been characterized as stimulus bound. To extend this hypothesis, the effects of manipulations of salient external cues on incidental learning and compliance were tested for overweight and normal subjects. High- or low-potency trigrams were presented incidentally, under conditions of high, low, or no distraction. A significant triple-order interaction for subject weight, cue potency, and distraction was obtain…
Fat chance for a favor
The behavior of obese individuals has been characterized as stimulus bound. To extend this hypothesis, the effects of manipulations of salient external cues on incidental learning and compliance were tested for overweight and normal subjects. High- or low-potency trigrams were presented incidentally, under conditions of high, low, or no distraction. A significant triple-order interaction for subject weight, cue potency, and distraction was obtain…
The Effects of Life Stress and Weight on Mood and Eating
Anxiety, perceived control, and eating in obese and normal weight persons
Sequels
The termination ideal for analytic work stands at a considerable distance from clinical reality; “complete” terminations are rare indeed. This gap is perhaps best explored by considering sequels—instances in which ex-analyst and ex-patient become nonsexual friends post treatment. The meanings and implications of these post-termination friendships—their complexities, problematic edges, serious difficulties, and the potential therapeutic benefit of…
On Behalf of the Child
Factions are Back
Erotic Complications
The author argues that erotic transference-countertransference dynamics present particular complexities when they develop between gender constellations other than male analyst and female patient. She addresses the dynamics of a complicated erotic transference in concert with an aversive countertransference response as it evolved between a female analyst and female patient. The intense erotic transference that developed defied classification as ei…
Excessive eating
Externality in the nonobese
The study considered whether external responsiveness in normal weight people would predict changes in eating behavior and weight following major alteration of environmetnal food cues. Normal weight children were tested for externality on measures of eating, slide recall, and extremity of affective responsiveness during the first week of a summer camp, and were weighed biweekly thereafter. There was a significant correlation between externality an…
Fat chance for a favor
The behavior of obese individuals has been characterized as stimulus bound. To extend this hypothesis, the effects of manipulations of salient external cues on incidental learning and compliance were tested for overweight and normal subjects. High- or low-potency trigrams were presented incidentally, under conditions of high, low, or no distraction. A significant triple-order interaction for subject weight, cue potency, and distraction was obtain…
Emotional Labeling and Overeating in Obese and Normal Weight Individuals
It was hypothesized that obese individuals respond to unlabeled high arousal by overeating, while no such response was predicted for labeled high arousal states. Obese and normal weight subjects were led to believe that they were hearing their own heart beat, and that it was either fast or slow. A label for this heart rate either was or was not provided, and subjects' eating behavior was measured unobtrusively. The results supported these hypothe…
Externality in the nonobese
The study considered whether external responsiveness in normal weight people would predict changes in eating behavior and weight following major alteration of environmetnal food cues. Normal weight children were tested for externality on measures of eating, slide recall, and extremity of affective responsiveness during the first week of a summer camp, and were weighed biweekly thereafter. There was a significant correlation between externality an…
Anxiety, perceived control, and eating in obese and normal weight persons
The Effects of Life Stress and Weight on Mood and Eating
Excessive eating
The psychodynamics of obesity
Le modele «psychodynamique» cense rendre compte de l'obesite est controverse. Bien que la mise a l'epreuve empirique de ce modele psychanalytique ait mis en evidence certaines lacunes concernant le role de l'affect dans le comportement alimentaire, de recentes donnees experimentales confirment le caractere central de cette dynamique affective
The psychodynamics of obesity
Erotic Complications
The author argues that erotic transference-countertransference dynamics present particular complexities when they develop between gender constellations other than male analyst and female patient. She addresses the dynamics of a complicated erotic transference in concert with an aversive countertransference response as it evolved between a female analyst and female patient. The intense erotic transference that developed defied classification as ei…
Gender, Splitting and Non-Recognition in Mad Men
Taking the transference, reaching towards dreams
Don’t tell anyone
Decentering Relational Theory
De-Idealizing Relational Theory
Resist This
The concept of resistance has fallen out of favor, particularly in relational psychoanalysis. We’ve associated “resistance” with traditional analytic models—with the idea that therapeutic action lies in overcoming a patient’s defensiveness via interpretation. I invite resistance back into relational thinking by relocating the concept dyadically—in the realm of enactment—and by considering the potential presence of individual resistance within a r…
On Behalf of the Child
A Few Regrets
This essay moves beyond my earlier focus on relational excess and turns a critical eye on my own work. After describing my relational holding model, I address its limitations—both theoretical and clinical. What is problematic in the implicit analytic ideal embedded in the concept of holding? How does this vision of therapeutic process both add to and narrow the clinical arena? What is absent, overlooked, or just plain wrong in this perspective? I…
Sequels
The termination ideal for analytic work stands at a considerable distance from clinical reality; “complete” terminations are rare indeed. This gap is perhaps best explored by considering sequels—instances in which ex-analyst and ex-patient become nonsexual friends post treatment. The meanings and implications of these post-termination friendships—their complexities, problematic edges, serious difficulties, and the potential therapeutic benefit of…
Inside Out and Upside Down
Winnicott had a delightfully idiosyncratic way of engaging paradox and playing with ideas. Indeed, it was Winnicott’s wont to turn clinical phenomena on their heads; he regularly surprised us by in
Factions are Back
Ending, Not Quite Ending, and Not Ending At All
I consider the place of termination in contemporary psychoanalytic practice. A more flexible approach to therapeutic endings represents one dimension of a broader paradigm shift away from rule-boundedness and toward clinical flexibility. In any event, final, less-than-final, and absent goodbyes have always been part of psychoanalytic reality despite the power of our termination ideal. I first describe the broader move toward flexibility within th…
Loewald and Winnicott’s Theoretical Convergence
This essay aims to identify some fascinating overlaps in Loewald’s and Winnicott’s perspectives on the emergence of autonomy in tandem with a capacity for genuine two-person engagement. Comparing Loewald’s “The Waning of the Oedipus Complex” and Winnicott’s “The Use of the Object and Relating through Identifications,” I address the striking similarities (and some differences) in the two theorists’ developmental and clinical visions. Each moved ps…
Can the Center Hold? Responding to Our Socio-Political Surround
Psychology (19 works) · Psychoanalysis (12 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Eating Disorders and Behaviors (6 works) · Psychotherapist (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)