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THE EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE INFANT - LONDON
and its implications for psychotherapy - a seminar series for psychotherapists working with the concept of the baby-self
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PROGRAMME
TERM 1
 
13 January 2011
Cathy Urwin
Ways babies communicate and experience parental communications

20 January 2011
Jean Knox
The co-construction of a self in parent-infant and therapist-patient relationships – an affective neuroscience perspective

27 January 2011
Maggie Turp
A sense of skin: the baby's early attempts to establish a workable boundary between self and others

3 February 2011
Judith Woodhead
Embodied and disembodied states: unconscious communication within relational parent-infant-therapist matrices

17 February 2011
Amanda Jones
Infantile sexuality: how the communicative intercourse between parents arouses bodily felt emotions as a baby observes parental faces, mouths and eyes interacting

10 March 2011
Judith Edwards
Love, Hate and Potency: the impact of early care on the baby's developing sense of self & later life patterns

17 March 2011
Joanna Tucker
An exploration of the parents' role in the baby’s developing sense of self, agency, and autonomy

24 March 2011
Amanda Jones
The importance of infancy and how it can reverberate throughout the lifespan

TERM 2
 
5 May 2011
Amanda Jones
The co-construction of defensive processes: the fine line between helpful self preservative capacities and the destructive severance of potential emotional intimacy

12 May 2011
Amanda Jones
Rejection versus acceptance of a baby's primitive love and need for both parent and baby: an existential tension

19 May 2011 SOLD OUT
Phil Mollon
Infantile shame and later manifestations of the crushed babyself, revived when an adult becomes a parent and/or a patient in psychotherapy

9 June 2011
Janine Sternberg
The ongoing influence of the past on current relationships

16 June 2011
Graham Music
The capacity for ongoing rupture and repair and its relation to resilience

23 June 2011
Dr Felicity de Zulueta
The Bereaved Baby: studies of primate infants suffering from maternal deprivation. What can we deduce about the development of human attachment behaviour and the implications for adulthood?

30 June 2011
Tessa Baradon
Relational trauma - embodied and representational 'ghosts'

7 July 2011
Joan Raphael-Leff
Difficulties managing difference: parental reflective function and unconscious 'contagious arousal'

TERM 3
 
22 September 2011
Cathy Urwin
The baby-self in the adult psychotherapy patient: a psychodynamic understanding of time

29 September 2011
Em Farrell
Enduring emptiness: affect regulation, infantile need and the adult's relationship to food

6 October 2011
Chris Clulow
Couple relationships: the parental couple in the infant and the infant in the parental couple

13 October 2011
Estela Welldon
Messing up babies: The start of personality disorder

3 November 2011
Frances Thomson-Salo
"No entry...": When closeness is dangerous in intimate relationships

10 November 2011
Carine Minne
Infanticide or Matricide? Shifting identifications with the disturbed grandmother and baby

17 November 2011
Sheila Ritchie
Who is mirroring whom? Mirroring processes in a group where mothers and babies are equal contributors

24 November 2011
Amanda Jones
Working through perinatal breakdown: what we've learnt through this series of presentations so that we can help parents and babies in the future

 
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