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52ND ANNUAL MARGARET S. MAHLER SYMPOSIUM ON CHILD DEVELOPMENT


Saturday, April 22, 2023
8:30 am to 1:00 pm ET | your time
Teleconference via Zoom

Co-sponsored by
The Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
and
The Margaret S. Mahler Child Development Foundation




ATTACHMENT, SEPARATION-INDIVIDUATION AND LOVE:
ADAPTATION OVER THE LIFE CYCLE




This program will focus on how experiences of love and aggression affect attachment, separation-individuation and intimate relationships across the lifespan. The presenters and discussants are leading clinical researchers on attachment, separation-individuation, and child and adult development. The program will appeal to mental health professionals of all disciplines, including psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and counselors, as well as trainees in all of these fields. The central topics of attachment, individuation, love, and intimate relationships are human universals, important to all clinicians.



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8:30Ashlyn Ernst | Welcome
Director, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelpha
8:32William M. Singletary, MD | Introduction
President, Margaret S. Mahler Child Development Foundation
Faculty, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
 Samuel P. Wyche, Jr., DO | Introduction
President, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
8:40Lawrence D. Blum, MD | Introduction to the Panel
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania
Faculty, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
9:00How Transformations of Aggression Impact Love Over the Life Cycle
Wendy Olesker, PhD | Presentation
Training and Supervising Analyst, NY Psychoanalytic Institute
Faculty at NYU, Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy
Director of Mahler Follow-Up Study
9:45Audience Discussion
9:50Will You Still Need Me? How Secure Attachments in Intimate Relationships May Protect Our Minds as Well as Our Hearts as We Grow Old
Robert Waldinger, MD | Presentation
Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard School
Director of MGH Center for Psychodynamic Therapy
Director of Harvard Study of Adult Development
10:35Audience Discussion
10:40Break
10:55Revisiting John Bowlby: Clinical Implications of Attachment Theory and Research
Miriam Steele, PhD | Presentation
Professor in Psychology, Co-Director of the Center for Attachment Research
Co-Director of Sander Ferenczi Center at the New School for Social Research
11:40Audience Discussion
11:45Otto Kernberg, MD | Discussion
Director of the Personality Disorders Institute, NY Presbyterian Hospital Westchester Division
Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Medical Medical College of Cornell University
Training and Supervising Analyst of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training & Research
12:00Diana Diamond, PhD | Discussion
Emerita Professor in the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology CUNY
Senior Fellow, Personality Disorders Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College
Adjunct Professor, NYU Postdoctoral Program for Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis
12:15Discussion Between Presenters
12:30Open Discussion with Audience
1:00End

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