Mentalization & Reflective Parenting
Mentalization develops within the context of a secure attachment relationship and is the skill of being able to see yourself from the outside and others from the inside. This session will examine this ability in more detail, including how it relates to healthy parenting and positive child outcomes.
Borderline Personality Disorder and Mentalization
Learn how Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is linked to childhood attachment and how it relates to problems with mentalizing in adulthood. We also discuss clinical tips for working with BPD, including how to create epistemic trust via mentalizing.
Transforming Trauma
This session introduces trauma from a psychoanalytic/relational perspective, exploring the ideas of psychoanalyst Robert Stolorow and how we can help others process and mentalize trauma.
Ghosts in the Nursery
“In every nursery, there are ghosts. They are the visitors from the unremembered past of the parents, the uninvited guests at the christening.” So begins social worker Selma Fraiberg’s seminal paper, Ghosts in the Nursery. We discuss how Fraiberg’s psychoanalytic approach to impaired mother-infant relationships still has far reaching influence in the realms of attachment, intergenerational trauma, and adverse childhood experiences.