Curriculum Vitae
Presentations by Year
1998 Presentations
Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Seminar: Developmental failures of affect regulation and the origin of self pathologies
Los Angeles, CA
Jan – Mar 1998
First Lifespan Conference on “Understanding and Treating Trauma: Developmental and Neurobiological Approaches”, UCLA Campus
Co-participant with Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Michael Stone, M.D., Daniel Siegel, M.D., and Francine Shapiro, Ph.D. Presentation: “Early trauma and the development of the right brain”.
Los Angeles, CA
February 1998
Brain/Mind Conference of the Children’s Mental Health Alliance Foundation, Doral Arrowwood Conference Center
Co-participant with Peter Fonagy, Ph.D., Daniel Siegel, M.D., and Stephan Heckers, M.D. Presentation: “An interdisciplinary perpsective on the development of brain/mind”.
Rye Brook, NY
February 1998
Orange County Child Abuse Prevention Council, Tenth Annual Conference
All-day clinical workshop: “Relevance of recent developmental brain research for attachment theory”, and “Implications of a developmental neurobiological model for the treatment of traumatic states”.
Anaheim, CA
March 1998
New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Annual Memorial Lecture for the Psychoanalytic Society: “Projective identification: An intrapsychic mechanism of right brain communication.”
New York, NY
March 1998
Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, Annual Meeting
Keynote Speaker, “The relevance of recent research on the infant brain to applied psychophysiology.”
Orlando, FL
April 1998
Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, Graduate Center for Child Development and Psychotherapy
Guest Lecturer, Advanced concepts of psychoanalytic theory. Presentation: “Projective identification: An intrapsychic mechanism of right brain communication.”
Los Angeles, CA
April 1998
Oklahoma Society for Psychoanalytic Studies, INTEGRIS Southwest Medical Center, and The University of Oklahoma Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Workshop: Affect Regulation: A fundamental process of psychobiological development and Neurobiological organization. Implications for psychotherapy.
Oklahoma City, OK
April 1998
Southern California Psychiatric Society Annual Meeting, ”The Emotional brain: Clinical significance of new discoveries in the neuroscience of attachment, memory, and relationships
Keynote Speaker, in co-presentation with Daniel Siegel, M.D., and Leslie Brothers, M.D. Presentations: “The relevance of recent research on the infant brain to clinical psychiaty”, “Affect dysregulation as a central mechanism of psychopathogenesis”.
Santa Barbara, CA
April 1998
Psychoanalytic Institute of New England, East
Workshop: “Early trauma and the development of the right brain”.
Boston, MA
May 1998
Psychoanalytic Society of New England, East, Scientific Meeting, Deaconess Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Discussant: “The non-verbal dimension of psychoanalysis: ‘State’ and its clinical vicissitudes”, a paper by Evelyne Schwaber.
Cambridge, MA
May 1998
UCLA/Harbor Psychiatry Training Program, UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Grand Rounds presentation: “Recent findings on the development of the emotional brain – an interface of infant psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, and clinical psychiatry’.
Torrance, CA
May 1998
Conference, “Baby Brains: Psychobiological Development of the Infant and its Implications for Therapy Practice”, Tavistock Clinic
Copresenter with Colwyn Trevarthen, Ph.D., Anne Alvarez, and Stella Acquarone, Ph.D. Invited presentation: “Affect regulation: A fundamental process of psychobiological development, brain organization, and psychotherapy”.
London, England
July 1998
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry, Grand Rounds presentation. Presentation: “Recent findings on the development of the emotional brain - an interface of infant psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, and clinical psychiatry’.
Los Angeles, CA
September 1998
Erikson Institute’s Faculty Development Project on the Brain and the University of Chicago’s Early Childhood Initiative, Symposium, “The Developing Child: Brain and Behavior”, Loyola University
Presentations: “Parent-infant communications and the neurobiology of emotional development”, “Early trauma and the development of the right brain”.
Chicago, IL
September 1998
UCLA/San Fernando Valley Psychiatry Training Program, Veterans Administration Hospital
Academic year-long seminar on the integration of attachment theory, psychoanalysis, and neurobiology to third year psychiatric residents.
Sepulveda, CA
October 1998
The International Institute of Object Relations Therapy, Georgetown University Department of Psychiatry, and the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy Conference, “Freud at the Millennium”, Georgetown University
Keynote Speaker: “The right brain as a neurobiological substrate of Freud’s dynamic unconscious”.
Washington, DC
October 1998
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics
Scientific Section on Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Section Program: “Translating Neuroscience: Early Brain Development and Pediatric Practice”. Co-presenter with Harry Chugani, M.D., and Peter Gorski, M.D. Invited address: “The relevance of recent reserach on the infant brain to pediatrics”.
San Francisco, CA
October 1998
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 11th Annual Conference
Keynote address: “The relevance of recent research on the infant brain to clinical psychiatry”. Plenary address: “Early trauma and the development of the right brain”. Workshop presentation: “Affect regulation: A fundamental process of psychobiological development, neurobiological organization, and psychotherapeutic treatment”.
Sydney, Australia
October 1998
Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute
Seminar: Developmental failures of affect regulation and the origin of primitive disorders.
Los Angeles, CA
November 1998
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Invited colloquium: “The experience-dependent maturation of an appraisal system in the right hemisphere”.
Toronto, Canada
November 1998
C.M. Hincks Institute Conference on “Traumatized parents and infants: The long shadow of early childhood trauma,” University of Toronto
Keynote address: “Early trauma and the development of the right brain” Workshop presentation: “Affect regulation: A fundamental process of psychobiological development, neurobiological organization, and psychotherapeutic treatment”.
Toronto, Canada
November 1998
Neuropsychiatric Institute, UCLA School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Seminar lead by Christoph Heinicke, M.D. Lecture to residents in Child Psychiatry: “The experience-dependent maturation of a regulatory system in the orbital prefrontal cortex and the origin of developmental psychopathology”.
Los Angeles, CA
December 1998