INSIGHTS FOR ADULT TREATMENT GATHERED FROM CLINICAL WORK WITH INFANTS, YOUNG CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

Donna Roth Smith, LCSW

Fridays, October 25, & November 1, 8, 15, 2024
2:30pm-4:00pm (ET)
Zoom
6 Contact Hours = 6 CE Credits

 

Clinical material from parent-infant and child treatment cases illustrating early, primitive anxieties- fragmentation, falling to pieces, falling out of the object’s mind- and early defenses, will be considered for application to the treatment of adult patients.

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Vignettes from the instructors practice and readings will provide the opportunity to observe and think about the early development of the mind and object relations, nonverbal communication, early/primitive anxieties, and defenses, and intergenerational transmission of trauma. Concepts such as containment, holding, receptivity, transformation, and the development of a psychic apparatus for thinking, will be discussed. We will discuss what was experienced and required of the analyst in the clinical work with the parent-infant dyads and child cases, the transference/countertransference patterns and the think about how this might be useful for understanding and making use of transference and especially our countertransference with adult patients.

 

Exposure to child analytic treatment provides a window into the internal world and childhoods of our adult patients, as well as an opportunity to deepen our receptivity, attunement, and creativity with adult patients. The discussion will also be helpful for thinking about what is required psychologically of parents.

 

6 Contact hours = 6 CE Credits

 

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will deepen their receptivity and attunement with adult patients.
2. Participants will expand their therapeutic technique with adult patients.

 

Donna Roth Smith, LCSW is a child, adolescent, and adult psychoanalyst. She is a supervisor and member of the Adult and Child Faculty at IPTAR and CAP, The Contemporary Freudian Society, the Anni Bergman Parent Infant Program, and former faculty at Bank Street Graduate School, Infant and Parent Development and Early Intervention Program. She is a Fellow of IPA and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society.

She is a North American member of the IPA Committee on Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis (COCAP). She has a private practice in NYC with Adults and Couples, Parents, Children, Adolescents and Parent-Infant/Toddler Dyads.

6 CE credits

• $320 general admission
• $300 members
• $280 candidates / students

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will deepen their receptivity and attunement with adult patients.
2. Participants will expand their therapeutic technique with adult patients.

6 CE credits will be granted to participants who have registered, have documented evidence of attendance of the entire program and have completed the on-line evaluation form. Upon completion of the evaluation form a Certificate of Completion will be emailed to all participants who comply with these requirements.

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