On the Road to the Cartagena Congress Webinar Series

Psychoanalysis and Childhood

This last webinar in this series will be dedicated to childhood, one of the main categories of psychoanalysis. The latest global traumatic events have provided the opportunity to analyse their implications for children and adolescents. 

Date: June 30th (4PM, London Time)


 

Moderator: Naoe Okamura (Japan)
MD, PhD, she is a candidate at the Training Institute of Japan Psychoanalytic Society. She currently works at a private outpatient clinic, psychiatric hospital, and private practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Tokyo.



Steven Marans (USA)
MSW PhD, he is a child and adult psychoanalyst and the Harris Professor of Child Psychoanalysis and Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. He co-directs the Yale Center for Traumatic Stress and Recovery and co-developers psychodynamic, evidence-based approaches to immediate response to and early treatment of traumatised children and families.


Title: Close Observation and Expanding Views of Early Childhood Trauma
Applying our psychoanalytic lens beyond the consulting room helped us to develop a partnership with police who regularly respond to scenes of violence to which children are so often exposed. As a result of this partnership, we were better able to identify children impacted by violence and to observe the details of their traumatic experiences from within moments of their exposure in their homes and on the streets. As a result of these close observations, we developed new collaborative responses that could help immediate stabilization and increase family supports so necessary for promoting recovery. Additionally, our work with many of these children back in our consulting rooms led the development of the only early, evidence-based psychoanalytic, developmentally informed brief treatment that can interrupt and prevent the development of PTSD and related disorders as well as serving to assess the need for longer-term psychotherapeutic care.

Cristian Pinto-Cortés (Chile)
He is a Doctor in Psychology from the Complutense University of Madrid, specialising in Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology from the IFFIV Institute of Barcelona and Systemic Family Therapy from the University of Chile. For more than fifteen years, he has been a therapist for children and adolescents victims of violence such as bullying, child abuse, sexual abuse, and exposure to partner violence. He is a clinical supervisor, researcher and professor at the School of Psychology and Philosophy of the University of Tarapacá. He teaches clinical and health psychology, child and adolescent psychotherapy, personality psychology and psychopathology. Former Secretary of the Chilean Association of Legal Psychology, affiliated to ISPCAN (International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect). Consultant and Advisor to several NGOs, training centres and governmental institutions. Member of the faculty of the Doctorate in Psychology, Universidad Católica del Norte and Universidad de Tarapacá and reviewer of the Journal's Child Abuse & Neglect, Brain & Behavior, Psicología Reflexäo e Crítica, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, ChildAbuse Review, among others.

Title: Institutional Child Abuse in Chilean Settings: Trauma and posttraumatic growth
Child abuse in childcare institutions is a serious human rights problem affecting thousands worldwide. This type of maltreatment, characterised by physical, emotional, sexual, and other forms of violence in asymmetrical power relations, can cause traumatic consequences to affect the psychological and social development of children and adolescents in the custody of the state or other care institutions. This webinar space aims to comment briefly on two research projects in Chile: The case of the Catholic Church and the case of residential child protection centres. 

Organiser: 
Mariano Ruperthuz