7-week Online Infant Observation Seminar at the Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program and CFS
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7-WEEK ONLINE INFANT OBSERVATION SEMINAR BEGINS OCTOBER 19, 2018 Offered by the Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program in Conjunction with the Contemporary Freudian Society Instructor: Dorinda Welle, PhD

This experiential seminar provides an introduction to parent-infant observation. The skill of close observation of parent-infant interactions has proven to be valuable in making informed, sensitive and effective assessments and in developing new techniques and interventions in parent-infant work.

Through the practice of infant observation, participants can attune to the emotional states of the infant and parent and become more aware of how the individual clinician makes sense of their observations. We will explore how this observational stance may serve to contain the dyad and the infant’s development. Continue reading 7-week Online Infant Observation Seminar at the Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program and CFS

Studies in Dysphoria: The False Accord in the Divine Symphony with Marion Oliner, Ph.D at NYPSI
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WORKS IN PROGRESS SEMINAR: Studies in Dysphoria: The False Accord in the Divine Symphony with Marion Oliner, Ph.D.

Wednesday, October 3, 2018 at 8 PM, New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, 247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btw 2nd and 3rd Aves), $20 – General Admission, $15 – Student Admission, No charge for NYPSI members/students
Register HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900

This presentation spans forty years of study and assumes that psychoanalysts should not base their understanding of trauma exclusively on the events that trigger the traumatic process since there are an infinite variety in the ways individuals assimilate a wide range of traumatic events. Some victims never recover and are simply not suitable for Continue reading Studies in Dysphoria: The False Accord in the Divine Symphony with Marion Oliner, Ph.D at NYPSI

How Polygamy Shaped Who We Are
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Click Here to Read: How Polygamy Shaped Who We Are: A history of multiple mating plays out in our modern world in all kinds of ways by Glenn Geher Ph.D. on his Darwin’s Subterranean World blog on the Psychology Today blogs on July 19, 2018.

Polygamy; or, The mysteries and crimes of Mormonism, being a full and authentic history of this strange sect from its origin to the present time. (1904). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons