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

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55th ANNUAL MARGARET S. MAHLER SYMPOSIUM
ON CHILD DEVELOPMENT

“Optimizing Early Development”

April 25, 2026

8:40 AM - 1:00 PM Via Zoom

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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 Art

Illustrates 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



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