Suppression of Affects and Psychosomatic Balance in a Dyad
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April 4, 2018
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Works in Progress Seminar:
“Suppression of Affects and Psychosomatic Balance in a Dyad: Mother-Child Therapy with a 2-year-old Boy Presenting Behavioral Issues and Skin Disorder”
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
8:00 pm
Presenter: Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, M.D., Ph.D.
A toddler who was running non stop and banging his head on the floor when emotional had eczema rashes as soon as he was calm. The very concrete, repressed way of thinking of the mother, who was overwhelmed and depressed, made a containing capacity to hold the child impossible, a situation that improved when working in analytic psychotherapy.
2 CME/CE credits will be offered.
Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, M.D., Ph.D. is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in NYC who works in private practice with adults and children, parents and their babies. A member of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris, she is on the faculty of the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research, where she directs the Parent-Infant Psychotherapy Training Program, and she is Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Columbia University. Dr. Anzieu-Premmereur is a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and she chairs the discussion group Parent-Infant Programs at Psychoanalytic Institutes at the American Psychoanalytic Association meetings.
Educational Objectives: After attending this activity, participants should be able to:
- Describe specific unconscious issues associated with behavioral and psychosomatic disorders in early childhood
- Evaluate the role of the parent-infant interactions in the child’s psychic functioning
- Identify the techniques of play and analytic therapy in parent-child work