Category: Psychoanalysis

Balance in a Dyad: Mother-Child Therapy with a Two-year-old Boy Presenting Behavioral Issues and Skin Disorder at NYPSI
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NYPSI:WORKS IN PROGRESS SEMINAR: Suppression of Affects and Psychosomatic alance in a Dyad: Mother-Child Therapy with a Two-year-old Boy Presenting Behavioral Issues and Skin Disorder, M.D., Ph.D. Young mum and her angry son meeting psychologist Suppression of Affects and Psychosomatic
Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, M.D., Ph.D.

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 at 8:00 pm
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves)
$15 – General Admission
$10 – Student Admission
No charge for NYPSI members/students
Register HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900 Continue reading Balance in a Dyad: Mother-Child Therapy with a Two-year-old Boy Presenting Behavioral Issues and Skin Disorder at NYPSI

Digging Deeper with an Anxious Adolescent at MITPP
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OPEN HOUSE LUNCHEON & CLINICAL PRESENTATION FOR THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING: DIGGING DEEPER WITH AN ANXIOUS ADOLESCENT
Wednesday, May 9, 2018 1:00 PM –2:30 PM

A 15 year-old girl sought treatment for severe anxiety believing her symptoms were related primarily to fears that she would not achieve academic success. Beneath her academic distress were issues independent of academic achievement including an insecure attachment to her parents, and an enmeshment communicated both emotionally and physically. At times the patient expressed her feelings about her parents through rage, and at other times guilt, pity, sadness and fear of loss. These shifting expressions were often dependent upon the interplay with her therapist. The therapist regularly experienced a sense of constriction in the room, and the feeling that she “couldn’t get it right” in responding to the patient. These interactions provided the therapist with clues about the patient’s need to remain connected and attached while simultaneously becoming an autonomous individual. Continue reading Digging Deeper with an Anxious Adolescent at MITPP