NYPSI EXTENSION PROGRAM : Psychoanalytic Principles of Child Development with David Sawyer, M.D. Psychoanalytic Principles of Child Development David Sawyer, M.D. October 19 – November 16, 2020 Mondays, 7:00 – 8:00 pm 5 classes / $150 This course is virtual and will be held on ZOOM. To register, click here, visit nypsi.org or call 212-879-6900
NYPSI Extension Program: Psychoanalytic Principles of Child Development
This is a course designed to help students better understand child development phases from a psychoanalytic perspective: the pre-oedipal, oedipal, latency, and early, middle and late adolescent phases. The course will highlight how certain issues affect child development at the different stages: sibling trauma, separation anxiety, beating fantasies, the origin and evolution of childhood narcissism, family romance fantasies (oedipal and latency fantasies) and object removal in adolescence. The discussion of these universal childhood fantasies is facilitated by a study of certain classical papers and current considerations of these issues. Clinical examples will be offered to illustrate the Continue reading Psychoanalytic Principles of Child Development with David Sawyer, M.D.