This presentation describes a community-based psychoanalytic outreach program developed by the Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program, which offers dyadic therapy to mothers and infants living in poverty. Drawing from two detailed clinical vignettes, the talk will illustrate how psychoanalytic principles—particularly those related to containment, maternal reverie, and the internal setting—can be applied flexibly beyond the traditional […]

On Coming into Possession of Oneself: Transformations of the Interpersonal Field is Donnel B. Stern's fifth authored book, and his latest contribution to the kind of understanding of psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic process offered by field theory. Stern's book is essential for all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists wishing to understand how the analyst's interventions grow from the analyst's […]