The Child & Adolescent Initiative hosted a presentation at the 2022 IAPSP Conference in Washington D.C. Presenters were William Ketterrer and Erica Young who work together in schools in New England, educating teachers in self psychology in hopes of creating a growth enhancing selfobject milieu,
On September 11, 2021, the Child & Adolescent Initiative hosted a Zoom panel, entitled A Complex Dance Between Parents and Adolescents: Facilitating Recognition and Self-Delineation. For this panel, Lauren Gumbiner, a new IAPSP member, presented the case of 16 year old Emma, a girl with
On Sunday, February 28, the Child & Adolescent Initiative hosted a Zoom meeting to discuss the experience of treating children and adolescents on virtual platforms during the pandemic. Nine people, representing 5 countries and multiple U.S. states, attended. The group discussed their creative ways of
In keeping with the 2019 theme of IAPSP’s conference in Vancouver, Engaging Difference and Sameness: Pathways to Empathic Dialogue, the Child and Adolescent Initiative hosted a presentation in which Keren Tamir of Israel presented a case of a child growing up in a multi-cultural family,
The Child and Adolescent Initiative hosted an online discussion of Heather MacIntosh's paper, A Bridge Across Silent Trauma: Enactment, Art and Emergence in the Treatment of a Traumatized Adolescence. This paper, published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues in 2017, recounts Heather's treatment of a severely traumatized, highly
In keeping with our tradition of discussing child or adolescent case material during the annual meeting of the Child & Adolescent Initiative, Valeria Pulcini of Milan presented her work with Titti and Sonia. This presentation, entitled "And Analyst Makes Three: Reaching Empathic Depths in the