Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting

Mary Davis, MD, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She has been involved with the Vulnerable Child Study Group since 1995, and became Co-Chair of the Study Group in 2009.M. Hossein Etezady, MD, is a child psychoanalyst in private practice in Paoli, Pennsylvania. He has worked in multiple settings, including in-patient, outpatient, and consultation services in child and adolescent psychiatry as well as in psychiatry. For over thirty years he has served as the moderator and coordinator, has been a contributor, and is currently serving as the senior co-chair of the Vulnerable Child Discussion Group of the American Psychoanalytic Association and The Association for Child Psychoanalysis.

• Preface Introduction: The Seeds of an IdeaChapter 1: Reflective Parenting and the Origins of the Center for Reflective ParentingChapter 2: Why and How CRP BeganChapter 3: CRP Direct Services and Training ProgramsChapter 4: Working with Different Clinical PopulationsChapter 5: Neurobiology of ParentingChapter 6: Other Programs Similar to CRPChapter 7: Finding the Good GrandmotherBibliographyIndexAuthors and Editors

In implementing the principles of enhancing mentalization in parents and therewith in their children, this book details a well-reasoned, achievable strategy and program for optimizing the mother-child relationship. In that, it is a valuable contribution to the promotion of healthy psychological development and takes us meaningfully toward the prevention of experience-derived-emotional-disorders in the children. This book is a most welcome addition to the increasing efforts by psychoanalytic health professionals in fulfilling Freud’s (1933) optimism that psychoanalysis may contribute most meaningfully to the next generation’s upbringing.