Tuesday
February 28, 2012 Scientific Program
7:00 P.M.
National Louis University
122 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL – Room 5006
Admission is free. No reservations are required.
CME and CE credits are available to attendees.
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Strands in the Fabric of Child Psychoanalysis: Past, Present, and Future
Presenter:
Paul Brinich, Ph.D.
Discussant:
Erika Schmidt, LCSW
Paul Brinich, Ph.D., is Clinical Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology and Adjunct Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He trained as a child psychoanalyst with Anna Freud and her colleagues at the Hampstead Child-Therapy Course and Clinic (now the Anna Freud Center). Dr. Brinich has served as president of the Association for Child Psychoanalysis and of the North Carolina Psychoanalytic Society. He has chaired the board of directors of the Lucy Daniels Center for Early Childhood and currently is a member of the board of the Lucy Daniels Foundation. He is a senior editor of the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, and a faculty member of the Psychoanalytic Education Center of the Carolinas. His numerous scholarly publications reflect his ongoing interest in child development, child psychoanalysis, and the role of psychoanalysis in the community at large.
Erika Schmidt, LCSW, is the Director of Center for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is a faculty member of the Institute for Psychoanalysis and the Institute for Clinical Social Work. Ms. Schmidt is the former Director of A Home Within, Chicago chapter of a national organization that provides pro bono psychotherapy to children in foster care. She has authored several articles about the history of psychoanalysis and child analysis in Chicago, and about child psychotherapy.
Purpose:
Dr. Brinich will use a developmental model to describe where the field of child psychoanalysis has come from, how it has become what it is, and where the field may be going in the future.
Educational Objectives:
After completing this offering the participant will be able to: 1) differentiate three theoretical strands which characterize the field of child analysis between 1909 and 2012; 2) describe two points at which the different schools of child analysis diverged and/or converged during the past century; and 3) describe two ways in which psychoanalytic knowledge and developmental research complement each other in conceptualizing the mind of the child and in guiding clinical work with a child and his or her parents.
Target Audience:
Psychoanalysts, other interested mental health professionals, and members of the community.
Admission is free. No reservations are required.
For more information, please contact bert@midway.uchicago.edu