The Edith Laufer Neuropsychoanalytic
Clinical Study Center of NPAP Presents

“Science of the Art of Psychotherapy”

Facilitator:
Ann Rose Simon, LCSW

Contributor:
Walter Nieves, MD, Consulting Neurologist

Friday, March 7, 2025
2:30pm – 4pm

Live In Online via Zoom
(Registration is required in order to receive the zoom link)
Registration will close
Friday, March 7, at 1pm

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BETWEEN 1PM AND 2PM
ON FRIDAY, MARCH 7

Registration is Closed

The group will read, study, and discuss books and papers by distinguished authors and researchers that explore some of the seminal concepts and clinical issues in neuropsychoanalytically informed psychotherapy. For this meeting date, we will read Chapter 6, Pages 223-242, “Affect Regulation, and the Developing Right Brain: Linking Developmental Neuroscience to Pediatrics” in the Science of the Art of Psychotherapy by Allan N. Schore. In this 2012 publication, Allan Schore, the internationally acclaimed clinician and writer, synthesizes research from the fields of psychoanalysis and neurobiology. From the vantage point of brain development, he touches upon such topics as affect regulation, attachment, developmental neuroscience, trauma and dissociation. Schore focuses not only on the brain changes that can occur in the patient during psychotherapy, but also on how clinical experience with the patient can have a neurobiological impact on the therapist. This book is a readable, clinically-based compilation of contemporary research and theory related to affect regulation – how humans regulate their emotions. As a central element of optimal human development and functioning, affect regulation is a central focus of psychoanalysis and other forms of psychotherapy. While this book draws heavily on the theories of Allan Schore, it integrates attachment theory, affective neurobiology, cognitive neurobiology, mother-infant studies, and developmental psychoanalysis.

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Learning Objectives: After attending the presentation, participants will be able to
– Describe how interactively regulated synchronized interactions between the caretaker and infant promote the infant’s regulatory capacities and are fundamental to the infant’s healthy affective development.
– Enumerate the milestone changes that occur in the infant brain during the critical period of development that begins at about 8 weeks.
– Explain how the diagnostic armamentarium of the practicing pediatrician can be enhanced by measurement tools for assessing attachment relationships, affect regulation, and infant mental health.