UPCOMING EVENTS |
2026 Henri Parens Symposium
"Resilience in Response to Violence & War: Children, Adolescents, & Adults"Presenters: Ann Masten, PhD, LP, Merav Roth, PhD, Salem Eid S. Al Arjani, PhD
Saturday March 7th 2026
10:00 AM - 1:30 PM EST via Zoom
55th ANNUAL MARGARET S. MAHLER SYMPOSIUM
ON CHILD DEVELOPMENT
“Optimizing Early Development”
April 25, 2026
8:40 AM - 1:00 PM Via Zoom
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
PAST EVENTS
2026 Kramer-Mahler Forum
"The Use of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Adolescents (TFP-A) to Treat a Teenager with Narcissistic Personality Disorder"
Presenters: Joanna Bird, MD & Lina Normandin, PhD
January 24, 2026
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM EST
via Zoom
HENRI PARENS SYMPOSIUM
Presenter: Dr. Abigail Gewirtz
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 1:30 PM EST
Teleconference via Zoom
KRAMER MAHLER FORUM
The Moving Picture: How Children’s ArtIllustrates Change During Treatment
Presenter: Dr. Robin Holloway
Saturday, January 25, 2025
Time: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM EST
Teleconference via Zoom
53RD ANNUAL MARGARET S. MAHLER SYMPOSIUM
ON CHILD DEVELOPMENT
OURS, YOURS, MINE — THE SELF IN RELATIONSHIP
FROM INFANCY THROUGH LATER ADULTHOOD: A TRIBUTE TO THE LIFE AND WORK OF ANNI BERGMAN
Co-sponsored by The Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia & The Margaret S. Mahler Child Development Foundation
Saturday, April 20, 2024
8:30 am to 1:00 pm ET
Teleconference via Zoom
THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION INTERACTIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
INFANT-PARENT DISTURBANCE: THEORY AND THERAPY
Chairs : Harold P. Blum and Sophie de Mijolla-Mellor
Sponsored by the Margaret Mahler Psychiatric Foundation,
Co-sponsored by the International Psychoanalytic Association and
the American College of Psychoanalysis
November 13 - 14, 2015
Paris