“Updates on Loss in Childhood through the Psychoanalytic Lens”

“Updates on Loss in Childhood through the Psychoanalytic Lens”

Corinne Masur, PsyD

Friday, January 10, 2025

6:30PM – 8:30PM (EST)

PPSC

Live Webinar on Zoom

$60 Regular Admission and $40 Student

*This talk provides 2 hours of continuing education credits for LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMHCs, LCATs, LMFTs, and licensed psychologists.

In this workshop, Dr. Corinne Masur will briefly discuss the history of psychoanalytic ideas regarding loss in infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Dr. Masur will then provide a detailed description of the infant’s, child’s, and adolescent’s concepts of death and reactions to significant object loss at each age and stage of development. Traditional psychoanalytic theory and technique will be updated using concepts from the object relations and relational schools, attachment theory, and sociology. Case examples will be provided.

Corinne Masur, PsyD is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. She is on the faculty at The Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia (PCOP). Dr. Masur runs parenting groups and has two blogs on parenting, www.thoughtfulparenting.org and "Parenting Matters" on Psychology Today. She is the editor of Flirting With Death: Psychoanalysts Consider Mortality and Finding the Piggle: Reconsidering DW Winnicott's Most Famous Child Case. Dr. Masur is the author of When a Child Grieves: Psychoanalytic Understanding and Technique (Phoenix, 2022) and How Children Grieve: What Adults Miss and What They Can Do to Help (Alcove Press, 2024). She is the recipient of the Gradiva Award for the Best Edited Book in Psychoanalysis, 2020 and the Teacher of the Year Award for many years running at PCOP. She is currently organizing the first annual Henri Parens Symposium which will address the effect of war on children and will be held online on March 8, 2025. She has been in practice for forty years, treating children, adolescents, and adults.

Learning Objectives

After attending this presentation, participants will be able to:

• distinguish how children at each stage of development understand death.
• describe how children at each stage of development react to the loss of a primary caregiver.
• identify the recent updates in the psychoanalytic theory of loss in childhood from a relational point of view.

Agenda

6:30 – 7:00: Brief history of the psychoanalytic theories of reaction to loss in childhood.

7:00 – 7:30: Description of children's understanding of death at various ages/stages of development with case vignettes.

7:30 – 8:00: Elaboration of children's reactions to the loss of a primary caretaker at various ages/stages of development with case examples.

8:00 – 8:30: Q & A.

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Event Venue

Online