Oregon Psychoanalytic Center
Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016
9am-4pm

Lewis and Clark College, Miller 105

CME Credits: 6
Registration Fee: $200
Professional Level Member Rate: $180
Residents/Interns: $100

The Baby and the Bathwater: Implications of Intersubjective Infant Research for Psychoanalytic Theory and Clinical Process

with Stephen Seligman, DMH

Each psychoanalytic approach uses its images of infants and children to express and buttress its theories and clinical approaches.  This program will present current research on infant development as a basis for an intersubjective perspective on psychodynamic treatment.  Understandings drawn from infant-parent interactions—including video illustrations--will be discussed, including the importance of mutual influence and non-verbal processes.   In addition, a discussion of the effects of deficits in early care on the development of the sense of the future will be offered.   That presentation will include a case, after which Dr Seligman will discuss a case presentation.  Audience participation will be encouraged.

Educational Objectives:
Objective 1: Participants will enhance their knowledge of core issues in recent research about infant-parent interaction.

Objective 2: Participants will increase the frequency of useful developmentally-oriented interventions.     

Objective 3: Participants will include more information from non-verbal signals and interactions & emotions in their case formulation and treatment planning process.  

Objective 4: Participants will enhance their ability to formulate interventions that focus on the emotional meaning of the interaction between therapist and patient in relation to what they have learned about infants and parents.

Objective 5: Participants will become more familiar with the distortions in the sense of time following trauma.

Schedule
9:00-10:20 - The Psychoanalytic Baby:  From the Instinctual to the Relational
10:20-10:40 - Break
10:40-12:00 - Implications for Clinical Work:  A Dyadic View of the Psychoanalytic Situation
12:00-1:00 - Lunch
1:00-2:30 - Disorders of Temporality and the Subjective Experience of Time:  Unresponsive Objects and the Vacuity of the Future
2:30-4:00 - Case Presentation

Stephen Seligman, DMH is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco; Joint Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues; and Training and Supervising Analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.  He is also Clinical Professor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in New York City, co-founder of the Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, and an associate editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality,

He is the author of over 70 articles, chapters, reviews and commentaries, and co-editor of Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health: Core Concepts and Clinical Practice, published by the American Psychiatric Press.  He is currently at work on Babies in the Bathwater: Attachment, Intersubjectivity and Developmental Psychoanalysis, to be published by Routledge.  


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 sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Oregon Psychoanalytic Center. 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 6 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.