Two new groups will be forming in September, one on the Upper East Side and one at the Columbia Center. We are also accepting referrals for consultations and parent-infant psychotherapy. The second aim of the PIP is training, represented primarily by the Parent-Infant Psychotherapy Training Program. The program embraces an eclectic theoretical orientation but remains rooted in the psychoanalytic tradition. Course directors are Gilmore, Coates, Beebe, Paulina Kernberg, Elsa First, Laura Whitman, and Debbie Hamm.
Scholarships are available.
The third aim of the PIP is research, which will involve ongoing evaluation of the effectiveness of both the training and service aspects of the program. Toward this end, Slade and Coates have been working with Peter Fonagy and Mary Target to develop a coding system of Slade and Aber s Parent Development Interview that would take into account a mother s reflective functioning. This important concept was developed by Fonagy and Target and addresses one s theory of mind in relation to another. Meanwhile, I attended the IPA Summer Research Program in London to work with Peter Fonagy and Robert Emde on the development of potential future PIP studies of maternal trauma, attachment, and psychopathology in mother and infant using the Zero to Three Classification. Over the last 10 years, infant psychiatry and psychoanalysis have burgeoned, integrating a wide variety of disciplines spanning psychiatry, psychology, and psychoanalysis with areas as diverse as neurobiology and speech-language pathology.