Events and Seminars
| Event | : | Après Coup Book Presentation: Catherine Vanier - Premature Birth: The Baby, The Doctor and the Psychoanalyst |
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| Venue | : | The School of Visual Arts 136 West 21st Street, New York, NY |
| Date | : | 02/05/2015 |
| Duration | : | 10:30 am – 1:30 pm |
| Extra Info | : | Advances in medical technology allow babies to survive earlier and
earlier births, while medically assisted reproduction allows women to
become mothers later and later; yet what is the psychic impact of
such precarious emergence into the world for the children, their
families, and the medical staffs devoted to them? How can neonatal
intensive care units avoid, among many other problems, becoming
“autism factories”? In narratives of fascinating social diversity,
Catherine Vanier draws on her twenty years of pioneering, direct
experience in such clinics to guide psychoanalysts in dealing with
medical personnel, distraught parents, and fragile new human beings
who, as science shows, improve remarkably when they receive the
caring intonations and rhythms of the human voice.
“Working in close collaboration with medical personnel, Catherine Vanier never asks if it is right to let these children live or die. In work like this, no one would dream of urging pointless therapeutic efforts on parents in distress, or immediately cutting off life. Here, every story is singular.”
—Elisabeth Roudinesco,Le Monde,review ofPremature Birth: The Baby,
The Doctor and the Psychoanalyst.
Discussant: Zina Steinberg and Lissa Weinstein
Attendance is free and open to the public.
Please ask at the desk for the room number.
For more information, visitwww.apres-coup.org
Discussant: Zina Steinberg and Lissa Weinstein |
| Organised By | : | Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association |
| Web Link | : | http://www.apres-coup.org |