Developmental Psychoanalysis and the Promotion of Progressive Development: A Retrospective Discussion

ROBERT J. KABCENELL MEMORIAL LECTURE IN CHILD ANALYSIS

Tuesday, June 13, 2017
8:00 pm

Presenter: Jill Miller, PhD

Most children who enter analysis suffer from what Anna Freud called the mixed psychopathology of childhood– the interweaving of both conflict and developmental disturbances. The technical approach with these children is also mixed as the focus is not only on conflicts, but also on developmental imbalances and internal structural deficits. In this presentation detailed clinical material from the analysis of a 4 and one half-year old girl will be outlined to elucidate this approach. In addition, when looking back at an analysis one always wonders if there were alternative ways of understanding the patient and what could have been done differently, issues which will be open for discussion.

2 CME/ CE credits offered.

No charge.

Jill M. Miller, Ph.D. is a child, adolescent and adult psychoanalyst in private practice in Washington, D.C. and the President of the Association for Child Psychoanalysis. She is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Medical School, Training and Supervising Analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, and a Supervising Analyst for child and adolescent candidates at a number of institutes across the country. Dr. Miller has presented and published a number of papers on the work of Anna Freud, children’s development of insight, the mind of the child analyst, and other issues related to child analytic technique, as well as a book with Dr. Carla Neely entitled The Psychoanalytic Work of Hansi Kennedy: From War Nurseries to the Anna Freud Centre.