About the Symposium
The Mahler Symposium brings together researchers and clinicians whose work focuses on how to best facilitate early child development. Some of the matters to be addressed are how to best guide and foster successful early relationships, what beneficial developmental experiences may help protect against trauma and compromised development, and what therapeutic means can help to interrupt the intergenerational transmission of trauma. Leaders in the field will present and compare the latest data on these subjects.
Presentations & Presenters
Daniel Schechter, MD – Associate Professor of Psychiatry (in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry), Lausanne University Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland Interrupting Passage of Traumatic Memories from One Generation to the Next in Early Childhood: Implications for Parent-Child Psychotherapy
Angela Narayan, PhD, LP – Associate Professor in the Clinical Child Psychology Ph.D. program in the Department of Psychology at the University of Denver
Benevolent Childhood Experiences (BCEs) and Angels in the Nursery as Resilience Factors to Counteract Intergenerational Trauma
Claudia M. Gold, MD – Pediatrician, Early Relational Health Specialist
Inside Ordinary Moments of Meeting: Lessons in Early Relational Health from Infants and Caregivers
Discussants
Jack Novick, MA, PhD & Kerry Kelly Novick, FIPA – Authors of Freedom to Choose, Working With Parents Makes Therapy Work, and Good Goodbyes
Jordan Bate, PhD – Associate Professor at Adelphi University in New York, where she leads the Attachment & Psychotherapy Process Lab
Moderator
Lawrence D. Blum, MD – Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Adjunct in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania; Faculty, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia