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Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma

Posted By: The Psychoanalytic Association of New York
Date: Friday, 1 October 2004, at 2:05 a.m.

The Psychoanalytic Association of New York

is pleased to present the 30th Melitta Sperling Memorial Lecture

Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma and Resistance to Change in Individuals and Large Groups

Vamik D. Volkan, MD, DLFAPA, FACPsa

(by invitation)

Founder, Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction, and Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia

Senior Erik Erikson Scholar, Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Introduction by Harold P. Blum, MD

Monday, October 18, 2004

8:30 pm

Einhorn Auditorium, Lenox Hill Hospital

131 East 76th Street, New York, NY

Dr. Melitta Sperling was a founding member of the Downstate Medical Center’s Psychoanalytic Institute and its Child Analytic Program. She had been trained as a pediatrician prior to her psychiatric/psychoanalytic training. A pioneer in the treatment of psychosomatic disorders and a prolific writer, she concentrated on the interplay between mother and child that perpetuated psychophysiological reactions. She was a Training and Supervising Analyst in both the Adult and Child Analytic Programs. Dr. Otto Sperling established a fund for an annual lecture in memory of her contributions.

This scientific session is open to psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and other mental health professionals.

To read a full summary of Dr. Volkan's presentation, visit www.med.nyu.edu/pany

http://www.med.nyu.edu/pany