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Seminar: Winnicott and the Relational Holding Model (Joyce Slochower, PhD)

Start
21 Nov 2026
End
22 Nov 2026
Schedule
2 sessions
#1.
21 Nov 2026, 9:00 AM 4:30 PM (CST)
#2.
22 Nov 2026, 9:00 AM 1:00 PM (CST)
Location
1132 S. Wabash Ave., Suite 502, Chicago (and via Zoom)
Spaces left
2

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Joyce Slochower, PhD

Winnicott and the Relational Holding Model

November 21-22, 2026

1132 S. Wabash Ave., Suite 502, Chicago

& ZOOM

Seminar Description: In this seminar we will review Winnicott’s contributions as they first altered our understanding of clinical work and ultimately informed the relational turn. I then offer an expanded understanding of what holding can look like in the consulting room. Arguing both for and against the clinical power of holding, I unpack her own understanding of its varied clinical impact in different kinds of therapeutic “knots.” If we have time, I hope to also address the underbelly of our analytic ideal and what I’ve called relational excess.

Joyce Slochower Ph.D. is Professor Emerita of Psychology at CUNY; Faculty, NYU Postdoctoral Program, Steven Mitchell Center, National Training Program, & PINC in San Francisco. Second Editions of her books, Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective and Psychoanalytic Collisions were released in 2014. Her latest book, Psychoanalysis and the Unspoken, was released by Routledge in 2025. She is co-Editor, with Lew Aron and Sue Grand, of “De-idealizing Relational Theory: A Critique From Within” and “Decentering Relational Theory: A Comparative Critique” (2018, Routledge) both of which received the Gradiva award in 2019. She is in private practice in New York City where she sees individuals and couples and runs supervision and study groups.

Readings:

Aron, L., Grand, S., & Slochower, J. (2018a). De-idealizing relational theory: A critique from within. Routledge.
Slochower, J. (2014b). Holding and psychoanalysis: A relational perspective (2nd ed.). Routledge. (Original work published 1996)
Slochower, J. (2014c). Psychoanalytic collisions (2nd ed.). Routledge. (Original work published in 2006)
Winnicott, D. W. W. (1965). The maturational processes and the facilitating environment. Hogarth Press.
Balint, M. (1968). The basic fault. Tavistock.

There is far more relevant reading than we can cover in a weeklong seminar; I’m including a list of recommended readings for those who are interested. The Winnicott readings are background, but if you haven’t read them already, please try to familiarize yourselves with these three:

Winnicott

The aims of psychoanalytical treatment (Maturational Processes, 166-170)

Dependence in infant care, in childcare, and in the psychoanalytic setting (Maturational processes, 249-260)

The use of an object and relating through identifications (Playing and Reality 8694)

A relational perspective on clinical work

Slochower, J. (2014) Holding and Psychoanalysis. London: Routledge. Chapters 3,5,6

Slochower, J. (2014) Psychoanalytic Collisions. London: Routledge. Chapters 4, 9, 10

Slochower, J. (2021) A few regrets. Psychoanalytic. Dialogues, 31(2): 166-180.