Events and Seminars
| Event | : | Infant Observation’s Relevance to Psychoanalytic Treatment |
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| Venue | : | Online |
| Date | : | 26/03/2025 |
| Duration | : | 8 - 9:30pm EDT / 12am - 1:30am GMT |
| Extra Info | : | With Sally Moskowitz This two part seminar begins with a brief discussion of the history and relevance of infant observation to psychoanalytic treatment and an experiential exercise in infant observation. A short video clip of a 5-day old infant and his mother provides a small sample of the infant observation experience and the opportunity to observe and discuss early mental states, the origins of the development of the mind and relationship, preverbal communication, and the parallels between observer's, parent's and analyst's roles in various interactional processes such as containment and affect regulation. In the second class, topics discussed include the impact of trauma on the parent's mind and its transmission to the infant, the conduct of parent-infant dyadic treatment, and the application of infant observation to analytic work with adults. Three papers by Dr. Moskowitz are discussed. "Primary Maternal Preoccupation Disrupted by Trauma and Loss" describes work with women who were pregnant and widowed on September 11th, 2001 and their infants. "Conflicts and Tensions between Parent-Infant Treatment and Family Law" describes a dyadic treatment with a mother and severely traumatized toddler. And "Playing Dead: An Unconscious Fantasy, Bodily Focused Defenses and their Roots in Infancy" describes aspects of an adult analysis including the recovery and reconstruction of early infant experiences and its elaboration in fantasy over the course of development. |
| Organised By | : | CIPS and Contemporary Freudian Society |
| Web Link | : | https://www.cipsusa.org/product/infant-observation-relevance-to-psychoanalysis-treatment-by-sally-moskowitz/ |