PANY Scientific Meeting: Summary

316th Scientific Meeting
Monday, November 15, 8:15 pm
Einhorn Auditorium, Lenox Hill Hospital, 131 E. 76th Street, NYC

Memory Systems and Mother-Infant Research - Is There a "Fit" with Adult Psychoanalysis?

Jack Pelaccio, MD
Chair, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, NYU Psychoanalytic Institute, New York University Medical School, New York, NY

Discussant: Doris K. Silverman, PhD, (by invitation)

Summary

Over the last several years, there has been a renewed emphasis on viewing the therapeutic relationship itself as playing a key role in the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis. This trend in conceptualizing the analytic relationship is based on the interpretation and application of certain evolving cognitive-neuroscientific information and observational studies of mother-infant interaction. This new information and research, with its accompanying clinical theory of relational "fitting," is discussed in terms of developmental theory and relevancy to adult analytic work.

This presentation is made in cooperation with the Child Analysis Section of the NYU Psychoanalytic Institute, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY.