PODS List

Separation - Individuation Theory - Research - Teaching/Training

Focus:
Chair: Susan Sherkow
Members: Susan Sherkow

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Publications for the Wider Public

Focus:
Chair:
Members: Ilene, Larry

Includes:

• Program Committee-Symposia
  
• Scientific monographs/journals on particular topics like object constancy and rapprochement
  

Clinical

Focus:
Chair:
Members: Rita, Sally, Susan Scheftel, Inga, Claudia

Includes:

• Prevention and early intervention-teaching/training
• Treatment of older children, adolescents and adults

Integrated Development Theory

Focus:
Chair:
Members: Claudia, Alex, Larry

Includes:

• Cross-cultural-Non-WEIRD populations

Trauma, Attachment, and Related Disorders of Separation - Individuation

Focus:
Chair:
Members: Dan

Includes:

• Research development related to problems in Separation-Individuation

ASD

Focus: Coordinating with interdisciplinary ASD Committee of DPE of APsaA
Chair:
Members: 

Finance

Focus:
Chair: Treasurer
Members: 

Includes:

• Fund-raising
• Assisting in obtaining grants for our programs

Interdisciplinary: Examples of object constancy both loving and hostile as well as rapprochement

Focus:
Chair:
Members: 

Includes:

• Literature- e.g.- Pamela Boker- Book- The Grief Taboo in American Literature Looking at Twain, Melville, and Hemingway from a separation-individuation perspective
• Mythology
• Philosophy -existentialism and rapprochement
• Religions
• Movies and Children's storiesmi
• Science- e.g. mitochondria as a social system