| | | APSA_NY13-409 | | Scientific Paper #7: Recovery from Childhood Psychiatric Treatment Speakers: David Mintz, Adele Tutter Increasingly, our patients have been medicated since childhood, with profound consequences for personal identity, becoming a source of deep-rooted feelings defect. Other problems arise when pills are used defensively to localize a family pathology in the child who receives the prescription. Furthermore, when medications are used to manage a child’s feelings, confusions may result about the signal function of emotions, truncating development. Cases of young adults, prescribed medications in childhood, are reviewed, with particular attention to developmental consequences. This session explores dynamic mechanisms of harm and examples of psychotherapeutic work that can help such patients seek healthier developmental paths. Audio CDs: 1 | | Audio CD | | $15.00 | | $15.00 | |
| | | APSA_NY13-402 | | Educator’s Symposium: Creating Possibility: The “Forward Edge” Approach in Schools & Consulting Room Speakers: Tillie Garfinkel, Mark D. Smaller, Daniel B. Frank The application of psychoanalytic concepts in school settings provides teachers, students, and parents an additional resource for educating our children. It also offers psychoanalysts an opportunity to expand psychoanalytic theory and clinical technique as they pertain to adolescent development and treatment. Mark Smaller, Ph.D., Founding Director of Project Realize (formerly the Analytic Service to Adolescents Program), describes the psychoanalytic concept of “the forward edge” approach to working with troubled adolescents in schools. He then outlines implications for advancing adolescent developmental theory and treatment in various settings. Preliminary findings of Project Realize show that regardless of wide variation in socio-economic factors in different schools, adolescent issues regarding learning, relationships, sexuality, aggression, and ambitions do not vary. Audio CDs: 1 | | Audio CD | | $15.00 | | $15.00 | |
