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This presentation will highlight how an evidence based psychoanalytic treatment method called Reflective Network Therapy (RNT) helps children and their natural networks (parents/caregivers, teachers and classmates) heal the experiences of intergenerational trauma, grief and loss, and the role that forming a coherent narrative plays in treatment.  Perspectives in working with First Nations peoples will be …

Early in life, if mothering is experienced as othering, frightened and frightening attachment expectations can get set in stone. Winnicott said that the infant’s first mirror is the mother’s face, in which the infant learns to feel seen and known, and to feel for and know the other. Developmental research shows how a caregiver’s “still …

SPSI Scientific Session Presented by Ronald Levin, MD Engagement with another’s internal world is a complex affair, which can be mutually enriching if one pays attention to “altered states of mind” and to “scale confusion.” Altered states facilitate access to primitive experience. Scale confusion results from our tendency to apply laws and understandings appropriate to …

SPSI Scientific Session Presented by Píyale Cömert, PhD Both immigration and retirement entail loss and require re-definition of identity. Retirement poses major challenges for anyone. For an immigrant, retirement has an additional aspect of reactivating the trauma of immigration with its losses and the necessity to develop a new cultural identity. Within the context of …