The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists
Invite you to a Scientific Meeting; Friday, April 8, 2016 – 7:30 PM
CONFLICTS AND TENSIONS BETWEEN MOTHER-INFANT TREATMENT AND FAMILY LAW: TWO CASE EXAMPLES Presenters: Sally Moskowitz, Ph.D. and Rita Reiswig, M.S.
Two psychoanalyst parent-infant therapists each present a mother-infant treatment case which illustrates the interface, tensions, and often contradictory aims and interests of the child, parents, and legal system. In both cases, in addition to the impact of specific traumatic events, legally mandated custody and visitation requirements complicated the therapeutic endeavor. In both cases, the treatments focused through play and reflection on restoring connection and communication between mother and infant about the past and ongoing traumatic events. The legal system’s mandates both facilitated and impeded these processes often imposing pressures contradictory to the mothers’ wishes and to the children’s developmental needs.
Sally Moskowitz, Ph.D. Co-Director: The Anni Bergman Parent Infant Training Program, Contemporary Freudian Society and The Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Training Analyst, Faculty: IPTAR, Adult Program in Psychoanalysis. Supervisor, Faculty: IPTAR, Child and Adolescent Program. Dr. Moskowitz has been a Consultant on infant development and parent-infant relationships to The Bushwick Impact Center, a community based family center in Brooklyn. She has written about bodily-based defenses in adults, infant observation and parent-infant psychotherapy.
Rita Reiswig, M.S. Training Psychoanalyst and Supervisor: Contemporary Freudian Society. Co-Director: The Anni Bergman Parent Infant Training Program, CFS, which she founded with Anni Bergman in 1997. She teaches at two psychoanalytic institutes in New York City.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1) Participants will gain an understanding of the technique and rationale for mother-infant dyadic treatment.
2) Participants will be able to identify factors that may interfere in such treatment such as parental tensions and legal considerations.
3) Participants will recognize the aims of the therapeutic endeavor and difficulties in achieving them.
The New York State Education Department has approved this meeting for 2 contact hours (CEUs) for LMSWs and LCSWs. A certificate will be emailed to those who sign the attendance sheet at the end of the meeting, complete an evaluation and pay an administrative fee of $5. There is no charge for those affiliated with MITPP, MCMH or MSPP.
No registration or fee required. Refreshments served following the presentation.
LOCATION OF MEETING:
Reidy Hall of Unitarian Church of All Souls
1157 Lexington Avenue (between 79th & 80th Streets)
New York, NY 10075
For further information: email mitppnyc@aol.com, visit www.MITPP.org or phone (212) 496-2858
Program Committee: Alexandra Cattaruzza, MS, LP, Co-Chair * Rosemarie Verderame, LCSW, Co-Chair * Joyce A. Lerner, LCSW * Anthony Mazzella, Ph.D., LCSW * Barbara Reichenthal, LCSW, BCD * Ivy Vale, BFA
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