Special Programs

Scientific Meetings
Mission Statement

As an outreach educational arm of the New Center for Psychoanalysis, Extension Division offers educational programs - classes, lectures, seminars, case discussions, film series, and more - intended to augment clinical skills for mental health professionals and to enhance understanding of psychoanalytic theory and practice.

Consistent with the mission of the New Center, the Extension Division courses cover the range of psychoanalytic perspectives and are offered in a spirit of open inquiry. Its courses are taught with an emphasis on an interactive educational approach.

Los Angeles Child Development Center, New Center for Psychoanalysis Child Analytic Program & Program Committee
jointly sponsor



A Clinical Study of the Transmission of Eating Disorders from Mothers to Daughters

Susan P. Sherkow, MD, Sarah Kamens, MA and Laura Loewenthal, PhD
To be used with DVD and transcriptions of DVD material

Clinicians and researchers have long recognized the existence of eating disorders in very young children, including infants whose mothers have eating disorders. In this day-long workshop Dr. Sherkow will present clinical/observational data from a therapeutic play nursery for mothers with eating disorders and their children. The clinical study with DVD material will explore the transmission of eating-disordered pathology from mother to child. The presentation will combine a review of the research literature with psychoanalytic theory and illuminate the origins and development of the intergenerational transmission of this disorder.


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