COLLOQUIUM FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 2025 (ONLINE)

This presentation introduces some basic concepts from infant research and neuroscience. Infant research describes how very early memories are formed and encoded thereby providing access to how they might show themselves from birth onwards. The concepts from neuroscience used in this presentation are simple versions for the non-scientist. They are used to explain some basic functions of how the brain processes information with specific emphasis on memory formation and the mind/body connection. I argue that humans are “mindbodybrains.” Whereas psychoanalysis has privileged “mind” in its theories, this presentation offers additional knowledge and language to link it to “body” and “brains,” and to provide a way to communicate these links to patients. This language expands the clinical repertoire.

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Judith Rustin, LCSW, is Faculty and Supervisor at The Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity in New York City and a Consultant in the Trauma Certificate Program of Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis. She has authored numerous papers and spoken nationally and internationally on the integration of Intersubjectivity Theory as defined by Robert Stolorow and Collaborators with Infant Research and Neuroscience. She is author of Infant Research and Neuroscience at Work in Psychotherapy: Expanding the Clinical Repertoire (2013) and co-author with B. Beebe, S. Knoblauch and D. Sorter (2005) of Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment. Judith is in Private Practice in New York City.

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