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  • 40 West 13th St. New York, NY 10011
  • November 7, 2025
  • 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM EST
  • 1.5 CE Hours

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NPAP Fall Continuing Education PROGRAM

The Edith Laufer Neuropsychoanalytic Clinical Study Group

Presenters

Ann Rose Simon, LCSW

 

Description

The Reading 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. During the 2025–26 academic year our focus will be on Early Infant Development. For this meeting, we will discuss the following chapter:

Stern, Daniel (1985). “The Sense of an Emergent Self”, Chapter 3, pp. 37-68, in The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology, Basic Books, Inc.: New York.

This excellent chapter gives us a very detailed, nuanced view of how the infant experiences the world through its senses and how these experiences become part of the emergent sense of self. “Daniel Stern brings together the exciting new research on infants and the insights of psychoanalysis to offer an original theory on how human beings create a sense of themselves and their relation to others.” 

Learning Objectives

After attending the presentation, participants will be able to:

  • Describe what Stern calls the infant’s state of “alert inactivity” and what Stern believes the infants are doing during these times.                           
  • Explain why the infant’s direct social experiences have come to be seen as the central focus of the infant’s early subjective life.
  • Enumerate and describe three “processes” that are involved in the formation of the “sense of an emergent self” and other.

Open to

NPAP Member

$25

Other Professionals

$40

Candidates / Students

$15

Contribution

Encouraged

CE Credits

1.5 CE contact hours will be granted to participants with documented attendance and complete evaluation form. It is the responsibility of the participants seeking CE credits to comply with these requirements. Upon completion, a Certificate of Attendance will be emailed to all participants.

  • National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0139.
  • National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts. #P-0010.
  • The National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0137.