NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
ACADEMIC RESEARCH/REFERENTIAL PROCESS SEMINAR
Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium
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Wednesday October 15, 2014 8 p.m.
Defense Mechanisms and Implicit Emotion Regulation in Children: A comparison of a psychodynamic construct with one from contemporary neuroscience with Tim Rice, MD Free and open to the public
The growing interest in neuroscience in the centrality of emotion regulation, and particularly in a recent subfield termed implicit emotion regulation, brings new opportunity for the treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders of childhood using psychodynamic concepts. At the same time psychodynamic theoreticians have become more cognizant of the centrality of affects in mental life. This paper introduces a psychodynamic approach that is theoretically founded on the domain construct of implicit emotion regulation and that has been manualized. Our thesis behind this approach and this paper is that contemporary affect-oriented conceptualizations of defense mechanisms are theoretically similar to the neuroscience construct of implicit emotion regulation. To illustrate this theoretical similarity, the literature connected with both concepts are described and compared. The implications of this idea, which have the potential for promoting an interface between psychodynamics and neuroscience are discussed and the new treatment manual (Regulation Focused Psychotherapy for Children with Externalizing Behaviors (RFP-C)) is introduced.
Timothy Rice, M.D. is a clinical fellow in child and adolescent psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. His interests include the integration of psychodynamic principles into academic settings.
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