Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program is pleased to invite you to attend a meeting of our Visiting Faculty Series
“Representations of Mother in the Daughter of a Gay Single Man”
By Sally Moskowitz, Ph.D.
Monday, December 5, 2011
Reception at 7:30 Program to Follow
IPTAR WEST- Conference Room 140 West 97th St.
This paper describes the infant observation of Rachel, the daughter of David, a single, gay man. Rachel was conceived and born through ovum donation, artificial insemination, and surrogacy. The observation begins before Rachel’s birth and follows the dyad a few months beyond the birth of the David’s second baby when Rachel is 22 months old. The paper focuses on the way in which Rachel comes to represent the idea of mother, David’s conflicts and concerns about this, and Rachel’s struggles to understand her brother’s and her own birth stories. The observation served in part as a therapeutic intervention, providing a containing and validating function to David throughout, as well as more direct and extensive discussions during the critical periods before the birth of each baby.
Sally Moskowitz, Ph.D., is a Co-Director of the Anni Bergman Parent Infant Training Program of The New York Freudian Society and The Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, where she is also a Fellow and on the Faculty in the Adult Program in Psychoanalysis and a Supervisor and on the Faculty of IPTAR’s Child and Adolescent Program. She is a Consultant on infant development and parent-infant relationships to The Bushwick Impact Center. Her work with the Mothers, Infants, and Young Children of September 11, 2001 has recently been published in a Special Issue (Vol. 10, No. 2) of The Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy.
RSVP by e-mail to sarasmeyer@gmail.com with your name and affiliation
CAP Executive Committee: Phyllis Beren, Ph.D., and Susan Berger, Psy.D., Co-Directors; Daisy Edmondson Alter, Ph.D., Bettina Buschel, LCSW, Ranny Goldfarb, LCSW, Carole Grand, Ph.D., Rena Greenblatt, Ph.D., Laura Kleinerman, MS, Miriam Pierce, LCSW, Lynne Rubin, Ph.D., Esther Savitz, LCSW, Rori Shaffer, LCSW, Donna Roth Smith, LCSW, Leni Winn, LCSW