Suppression of Affects and Psychosomatic Balance in a Dyad

  • 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.

In French she has co-authored books on play in child psychotherapy and on psychoanalytic interventions with parents and babies.  She co-edited with Vaia Tsolas the recently published A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Body in Today’s World (Routledge, 2018). In 2017, Dr. Anzieu-Premmereur published the chapter “Attacks on Linking in Parents of Young Disturbed Children” in Attacks on Linking Revisited: A New Look at Bion’s Classic Work.

Educational Objectives: After attending this activity, participants should be able to:

  1. Describe specific unconscious issues associated with behavioral and psychosomatic disorders in early childhood
  2. Evaluate the role of the parent-infant interactions in the child’s psychic functioning
  3. Identify the techniques of play and analytic therapy in parent-child work
Psychologists
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Social Workers
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Physicians
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of (2) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Important disclosure information for all learners
None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Persons with disabilities
The building is wheelchair accessible and has an elevator. Please notify the registrar in advance if you require accommodations.

Venue:  

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Second Floor, 247 East 82nd Street | New York, NY 10028

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