THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
WORKS IN PROGRESS
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 8:30 p.m.
Dr. Vivian Eskin
On Waiting, Knowing & Not Knowing:
When a Parent is Deployed
Interest in the effect of wartime deployment on families with children led to pro bono group therapy for women whose husbands, boyfriends and sons had been sent to Iraq or Afghanistan. The approach was informed by training in infant observation, group counseling, dyadic treatment, and psychoanalytic thought. The group’s unfolding and subsequent dyadic treatment with a mother and her toddler son will be described. Bion’s and Britton’s models of containment and triangular space became manifest in this therapeutic endeavor.
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