Winnicott Today: A Contemporary Perspective

This presentation will focus on the clinical use of core Winnicottian concepts in contemporary therapeutic work. What does holding actually "look like" in the consulting room? What role did regression and object usage play in Winnicott's therapeutic model, and how does it apply today? we will address these themes and related Winnicottian ideas including hate in the countertransference, true and false self, and creativity. We will describe how these themes both fit and collide with contemporary psychoanalytic thinking.

Joyce Slochower, Ph.D., ABPP, Faculty, NYU Postdoctoral Program, the Steven Mitchell Center, and the National Training Program of NIP, New York; Faculty, PINC, San Francisco.
She is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and Ricerca Psicoanalitica. Dr. Slochower is the author of over 50 articles on various aspects of psychoanalytic theory and technique and Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective (1996) and Psychoanalytic Collisions (2006).
Saturday, February 11, 2012
08:30am - 01:00pm
4 CME/CE credits available

Location:
Christ Episcopal Church
1040 Border Road
Los Altos, CA 94024 

Educational objectives:

1. Participants will describe core Winnicottian concepts.
2. Participants will demonstrate how to use these core concepts in their work with patients.
3. Participants will compare and contrast these core concepts with contemporary analytic thinking.