Developmental Psychoanalysis Today: A Relationship-Based Perspective

The National Institute for the Psychotherapies
250 West 57th Street, Suite 501
New York, NY 10107

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This workshop will consider how analytic practice can be affected by thinking about infants and children, asking how (and whether) we can talk about babies and patients in the same breath. Video illustrations will be included, and case material will be considered.

We will bring together what remains vital in the classical psychoanalytic traditions with the emerging intersubjectivist-Relational sensibility, including new findings in the areas of attachment, infant-parent interaction research, developmental neuroscience, trauma, and the like. We will consider analogies between infant-parent and patient-therapist interaction patterns, how looking at babies brings the lived experience of the body back into analysis, and helps us think about the non-verbal, emotional and interactive realms. An orientation to the history of developmental psychoanalysis and the place of infancy and childhood in different analytic approaches will be offered. The different “analytic babies” are described and compared--Freud’s baby, Klein’s baby, Winnicott’s baby, the Relational baby….

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will increase their use of psychotherapeutic interventions based on understanding how young children develop.
2. Participants will be able to make useful and direct observations of therapist-patient interactions.
3. Participants will clarify how different psychoanalytic conceptions of infancy affect their own case formulation and intervention strategies.

Continuing Education

This event is approved for 4.0 CE contact hours for psychologists, social workers, and licensed psychoanalysts: 

The National Institute for the Psychotherapies is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education credits for psychologists. The National Institute for the Psychotherapies maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

The National Institute for the Psychotherapies is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0018.

The National Institute for the Psychotherapies is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts #Psyan-0004.

National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0059.

Personalized CE certificates will be distributed at the end of this event. Due to New York State requirements, persons arriving more than 15 minutes late or leaving more than 15 minutes early will not receive a CE certificate.

Fees

Early Registration (ends March 1, 2018)

$100 general public
$85 NIPPA members
$65 candidates & students

General Registration (begins March 2, 2018)

$125 general public
$110 NIPPA members
$90 candidates & students

Refunds & Cancellation Policy
Cancellation requests made more than a week prior to the event will be given a full refund of registration fees. Refunds will not be granted for cancellation requests made within a week of the event or for no-shows on the day of the event.