Early stages, line of development and mental illness 1
October 9, 2021
This course examines the developmental line of the individual beginning with pregnancy and how alterations in it can lead to psychic pathology in childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, reserving discussion of the organic disease portion for a later course.
The discussion will also emphasize how crucial it is to attend to the functioning of the “caregiver-child” dyad as early as pregnancy. D. Winnicott’s famous statement “There is no child without a mother” is now greatly reinforced by the new paradigm of “two-person- neuroscience” (R. Feldman), affective neuroscience and the now 20-year follow-up studies on attachment and synchronous relationship microfilmed at 3-4 months of age.
The topics of parenting, traumatic situations such as preterm births and early bereavement, epigenetics in pregnancy, integration of neuroscience and psychoanalysis regarding the dyad, as well as some risk factors such as the presence of psychiatric pathology in the family will be covered.
We will also have the honor of hearing the thoughts of prominent speakers who have devoted their professional careers to these issues for several decades.
