Psychoanalytic Engagement and the Dynamic Structure of the Central Nervous System

Integrated Child & Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (ICAPP)
2021-22, 2nd Block — Mondays, 8:00-9:15pm
Ronald W. Levin, MD

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January 3, 2022 — Encoding of primordial experience

[26 pages]

• How is early trauma encoded?
• What role does secure attachment play is metabolizing early trauma?
• What is the autobiographical self?
• How does early trauma integrate in the auto biographical self?

Coates, S.W. (2016) Can Babies Remember Trauma? Symbolic Forms of Representation in Traumatized Infants. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 64:751-776