NYU Psychoanalytic Institute, Division of Child Psychoanalysis
Twenty-Third Annual Maurice Friend Memorial Lecture
Meeting Summary
Thursday, October 16, 2003 8:30 p.m.
NYU Medical Center Schwartz Lecture Hall "F"
Reception (coffee and dessert) 7:30 p.m. Schwartz Lobby

Fred Pine, Ph.D.

Fred Pine, Ph.D. is a professor in the department of psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is the author of numerous articles in the intersect of developmental and clinical psychoanalytic theory. Mostly they are represented in his books: Developmental Theory and Clinical Process (Yale, 1985); Drive, Ego, Object, and Self (Basic Books, 1990); and Diversity and Direction in Psychoanalytic Technique (Other Press, 2003). He co-authored The Psychological Birth of the Human Infant with Mahler and Bergman (1975). Dr. Pine is widely known as a speaker, a teacher, and a clinician with both children and adults.

THE MOTHER, THE INFANT, AND THE BODY: THOUGHTS ON DIFFERENTIATION AND
INTERCONNECTEDNESS

Infant and mother begin with intense, intricately entangled, forms of bodily interrelatedness. From this mix, a child slowly emerges with a preferred degree of differentiation, a beginning direction for the development (and failed development) of selected skills and interests, and with particular arenas of conflict. An attempt is made to differentiate, out of the mix, particular mechanisms of bodily communication and impact that shape the child as well as the mother.

The lecture series honors Dr. Maurice R. Friend, a former Director of the NYU Psychoanalytic Institute and Chair of its Child and Adolescent Section, who died in 1981.