Continuing Education Seminar by Stephen Seligman, DMH

Seminar Description:

This conference will consider how psychotherapy practice can be affected by thinking about infants and children, asking how and whether we can talk about babies and patients in the same breath. The discussion will be anchored in the immediacy and vitality of direct experience with infants and their parents, and of the lived experience of therapeutic relationships with adults. Observing infants and parents makes us more aware of the dimensions of psychotherapies that we might not otherwise notice, and shifts our view of the analyst's work towards activity through a variety of non-verbal, emotional and interactive pathways. We will consider how infant development research supports an intersubjective-relational, "two-person psychology" orientation to psychodynamic clinical work and theory.

Number of CEUs: 6

Presenter Bio:

Stephen Seligman is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco; author of Relationships in Development: Infancy, Intersubjectivity, Attachment (Routledge, 2018); Joint Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues; Training and Supervising Analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. He is Clinical Professor of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in the Psychoanalysis and on the faculty of the Infant Mental Health Certificate Programs at UC Davis and the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

In addition, he is the co-editor of the American Psychiatric Press' Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: Core Concepts and Clinical Practice. He is also associate editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and was a member of the founding executive board of the Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy. Overall, Dr. Seligman continues the project of bridging psychoanalysis and infancy intervention and research. He has been writing and teaching about the applications of infancy research to psychoanalytic therapies, along with focusing on how the image of the infant is constructed in different psychoanalytic models. He has authored over 75 papers, chapters, reviews, and other publications.

In the infant clinical area, Dr. Seligman's recent work has focused on translating psychodynamic concepts to the broader arenas of work with infants, both in infant-parent psychotherapy and in work with special populations, such as abused and neglected infants and infants with developmental disabilities. He practices, teaches, and writes about infant intervention from the perspective of the continuing evolution of the original model designed by Selma Fraiberg and her colleagues.

Rosemead School of Psychology is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Rosemead School of Psychology maintains responsibility for this program and its content.