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Child Development & The Roots of Identity

Since Freud’s exposure of the fallacy of childhood innocence, the early years have been subject to intense scrutiny. The mind of the infant and small child, far from being a blank screen, is now understood to be actively receiving, organizing and adapting to a myriad of internal and external events.

Speakers for this conference come with seminal views of both the ferment and inchoate ordering In the mental life of infants. Psychoanalysts have considered the internal psychic events of this Period crucial in forming the foundation for later personality development. Others emphasize powerful forces outside the infant, i.e. the parent, or social structures. Others point to the discontinues in individual development which suggest that there are powerful internal forces which operate later in childhood or adolescence. These core issues culminate in a final panel discussion.

PRESENTATIONS:

The Infants of Mothers with Affective Disorders - E. James Anthony, MD

Discussion of Dr. Anthony’s Presentation - Heiman van Dam, MD

The Affective Self: Its Origin in Infancy - Robert N. Emde, MD

Discussion of Dr. Emde’s Presentation - Justin D. Call, MD

A Pediatrician’s Response - Arthur H. Parmelee, MD

Reformulation of the Theory of Aggression - Henri Parens, MD

The Infantile Roots of Sexual Identity - Eleanor Galeson, MD

Discussion of Dr. Galeson’s Presentation - Jerome D. Oremland, MD

Discussion: Latter Consequences of Early Experience - Panel

This program includes the following tapes:

(636) The Infants of Mothers with Affective Disorders
(637) The Affective Self: Its Origin in Infancy
(638) A Pediatrician's Response
(639) Toward Reformulation of the Theory of Aggression & Its Implication
(640) The Infantile Roots of Sexual Identity
(641) Discussion: Latter Consequences of Early Experience

Program CD Price: $85.00
Homestudy Price: $105.00
Homestudy Credit: 14 Continuing education hours
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Total CD's: 10

Creating Meaning from Birth to Adulthood

How can we speak of an historical validity in the personal narratives that our patients construct in their lives? This program investigates how individuals organize and reorganize their lives and its meaning. Since most therapists deal with narratives related by adults, this program considers the effects of narratives in clinical treatment.

This program includes the following tapes:

(642) Development of the Narrative Self
(643) Narrative Attunement
(644) Narrative and Research: The Child's Inner World
(645) Narratives in Children at High Risk for Psychotherapy
(646) Panel Discussion
(647) Psychoanalysis Encounters the Personal Narrative
(648) The Implications of Narrative Research on the Treatment of Adults
(649) Closing Panel Discussion

Program CD Price: $110.00
Homestudy Price: $130.00
Homestudy Credit: 14 continuing education hours
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Total CD's: 10

Images, Myths & Fairytales: Timeless Therapeutic Tools

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For centuries universally people have invented tales for each other via painted images, oral traditions, written works and contemporary multimedia electronics.

Fred, Jung and other seminal thinkers formulated much of their philosophy on a body of literary symbols. For the observer clever enough to follow the paths, these are clear sign posts to the human unconscious.

This program includes the following tapes:

(720) Introduction to the Thema
(721) Psyche and Symbol
(722) Sayings and Parables
(723) Fairytales as Written by Children & Adolescents for the Adult World
(724) Imagery and the Primitive Tribes
(725) Why Should a Therapist Know Anything About Fairytales?
(726) Panel Discussion

Program CD Price: $75.00
Homestudy Price: $95.00
Homestudy Credit: available for Home Study Course, 14 hours continuing education
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Total CD's: 8

Interpersonal World of the Infant

Experimental studies of infant and child development form the advancing edge of a major challenge to traditional psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice. Daniel Stern’s brilliant and innovative research and his reformulation of developmental theory strongly undermine any notion of ‘non-social’ infant development. He shows the central importance of the mother-child interactions in shaping the child’s own emerging sense of self and reformulations of developmental theory with clinical psychopathology and treatment.

In this conference, Dr. Stern provides an overview of his model, show the contrast and challenge to traditional theory, and discusses (with audience participation) the clinical implications of the new research.

The framework presented provides a template for understanding and treating the psychopathology of disturbed relationships between infant and parent. Various therapeutic approaches are discussed in terms of the locus of their therapeutic actions on the dynamic system of the parent’s and infant’s overt behavior and their respective representation of themselves and other in their interactions.

Dr. Stern discusses some of the major issues in psychoanalytic theories of infant development. These will include new understandings of traditional theories such as:

• Psychosexual stages of classical psychoanalysis.

• The Mahlerian stages leading from symbiosis to separation.

• The role of fantasy versus reality in the infant’s construction of a represental world.

• Continuity versus discontinuity in developmental experience.

• The fixation-regression model.

• the acquisition of senses of the self.

Treatment modalities which include psychoanalytic psychotherapy, family therapy, behavioral-pediatrics and behavior therapy. How the parent-infant interactions are recreated and can be observed in manifest and latent forms in adult relationships are be considered.

This program includes the following tapes:

(820) Interpersonal World of the Infant: Implications for Clinical Theory and Practice

Program CD Price: $65.00
Homestudy Price: $85.00
Homestudy Credit: 14 CEU Hours
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Total CD's: 10

Narratives: Creating Meaning from Birth through Adulthood

How do we use our understanding in personal narratives in our clinical practice? How do narratives develop during infancy and childhood? Can we speak of an historical validity in the personal narratives that our patients construct in their lives? This program investigates how individuals organize and reorganize their lives and its meaning. Since therapists deal with adult narratives, this program considers the effects of narratives in clinical treatment.

Program CD Price: $110.00
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World of Self and Others: The Impact of Infant Research on Treatment of Adults

Exciting developments in the field of infant observation and research have yielded a wealth of new data with significant implications for theories of development and for the treatment of both children and adults.

Accumulating research evidence suggests that infants may come into the world already programmed to process surprisingly complex data related to self perceptions and to perceptions of and communications with other human beings.

We can being to integrate the implications of this exciting research into our clinical theory and to consider the influence on the insights of psychoanalysis.

This program includes the following tapes:

(628) The World of Self and Others: Overview of Issues
(629) Opportunities for Strengthening the Parent/Infant Interactions in the Face of Changing Lifestyles
(630) The Interpersonal World of the Infant
(631) Affective Core of the Self: Motivational Structures from Infancy
(632) Implications of Infancy for Adult Treatment: The Rashomon Phenomenon
(633) Current Issues in Infant Development: Consensus & Divergence (Drs. Brazelton, Stern, Ornstein, Pine,
(634) A case Discussion: Initiative, an Issue from Infancy to Adulthood
(635) Highlighting Parental Dysfunction in Adult Psychotherapy

Program CD Price: $75.00
Homestudy Price: $95.00
Homestudy Credit: 14 CEU Hours
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Total CD's: 8