THE ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC MEDICINE
The monthly meeting of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine will be held at the New York Academy of Medicine, 2 East 103rd Street, New York City, on TUESDAY, November 2, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. There will be no collation before this lecture.
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
CHILDISM:
A PSYCHOANALYTIC EXPLORATION OF PREJUDICE AGAINST CHILDREN
Presenter: Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Ph.D. was on the faculty of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and now lives in Toronto. She is a member of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society.
Discussant: Samuel Abrams, M.D. is a Clinical Professor at the Psychoanalytic Institute of New York University Medical Center.
This lecture advances the proposal that there is a prejudice against children, which could be called “childism”, that is comparable psychodynamically to prejudices like anti-Semitism, racism and sexism. It will be argued that prejudices serve three fundamental purposes – elimination, sexual exploitation, and erasure of identity — each of which reflects defenses of a specific sort: obsessional, hysterical, and narcissistic, respectively. Childism is a complex prejudice that can serve all three purposes, and reflect all three characterological defense types. Further, childism utilizes images and stereotypes of children or childhood that can be referenced to its three basic forms.
Educational objectives:
After attending this meeting, the participant will:
1. Be able to situate childism within the spectrum of social prejudices.
2. Be able to delineate the psychodynamic underpinnings of childism.
Jules Kerman, M.D., Ph.D.
President
Edith Cooper, Ph.D.
Secretary
Edward Kenny, M.D.
Chair, Program Committee
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians and takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this educational activity for a maximum of 2 AMA Physician’s Recognition Award Category 1 Credit(s). Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity. This program is being co-sponsored by the New York Academy of Medicine Section on Psychiatry. Important disclosure information for all learners: none of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial information to disclose.
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