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Stephen Seligman, DMH is Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco and at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis;Training and Supervising Analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California; and Editor Emeritus of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. He is the author of Relationships in Development: Infancy, Intersubjectivity, Attachment (Routledge, 2018), which has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Korean and Ukrainian (delayed), and co-edited the American Psychiatric Press’ Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: Core Concepts and Clinical Practice. He has also worked for over four decades in the development and dissemination of the original “Fraiberg model” of infant-psychotherapy. He has published nearly 100 articles, chapters and reviews, many of which take up the intersection of infancy research, child development and psychoanalysis. An experienced child psychotherapist, Dr. Seligman teaches internationally and throughout the US, with study groups including members from California, New York and Europe.
Audrey Anne Alvarez, PhD , MACP trained as a clinical psychologist in the 1950s in Canada and the USA. While working in England, attempting to ascertain the differences in personality, rather than symptoms, between depressive and paranoid psychiatric patients, she was drawn to the writings of Melanie Klein. Dr. Alvarez subsequently trained as a Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist at Tavistock Clinic, London. She is a Member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists in the UK and the Association for Child Psychoanalysis, Boston, USA. She is an Honorary member of AIPPI (Italian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Children), the French Child Psychoanalytic Association, and the Psychoanalytic Center of California in Los Angeles. She is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist (and retired Co-Convener of the Autism Service, Child and Family Department, Tavistock Clinic. She is author of Live Company: Psychotherapy with Autistic, Borderline, Deprived and Abused Children and co-edited with Susan Reid, Autism and Personality: Findings from the Tavistock Autism Workshop. Both books have been translated into many languages. Anne Alvarez in Sao Paulo: Clinical Seminars was published in Brazil in 1999 after lectures and seminars to the Sao Paulo Psychoanalytic Society. A book in her honor, edited by Judith Edwards, entitled Being Alive: Building on the Work of Anne Alvarez was published in 2002. Dr. Alvarez was Visiting Professor at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society in November 2005, where she continues to lecture regularly by videoconference. Her latest book, The Thinking Heart: Three Levels of Psychoanalytic Therapy with Disturbed Children, was published in April 2012 by Routledge. Dr. Alvarez has given many honorary lectures in the USA and Europe. A book – an introduction to her work- is in progress for a series of influential thinkers, which will be published by Routledge.
Christopher Bonovitz, PsyD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at William Alanson White Institute in New York, and Adjunct Professor and Clinical Consultant, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; and Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He coauthored a book with Andrew Harlem, Developmental Perspectives in Child Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, published in 2018 as part of the Relational Book Series. In addition, Dr. Bonovitz has authored numerous book chapters and journal articles. His chapter titled, "What Makes Time Fly? Loewald's Concept of Time and the Resuscitation of Vitality", was published in Vitalization in Psychoanalysis, edited by Amy Schwartz Cooney and Rachel Sopher (Routledge, 2021).
Moderator Cynthia Mulder, LCSW is an assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine and a faculty member at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies in Houston, Texas. She is co-facilitating a study group for HPS on vitality/vitalization.
REFERENCES (partial list)
Harrison, A. M. & Beebe, B. (2018). Rhythms of dialogue in infant research and child analysis: Implicit and explicit forms of therapeutic action. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 35: 367-381.
Seligman, S. (2018). Forms of vitality and other integrations: Daniel Stern’s contributions to the psychoanalytic core. Relationships in development: Infancy, intersubjectivity, and attachment. New York: Routledge, pp. 240-248.
Trevarthen, C. (2019). Sander’s life work on mother-infant vitality and the emerging person. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 39: 22-35.
IMAGES of infant-parent and patient-therapist interactions from Can Stock.
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