The Bernard L. Pacella, MD Parent Child Center

About Us: Presentations and Publications

Discussion Group: Parent-Infant Programs at Psychoanalytic Institutes: Co-chair: Leon Hoffman (with William Singletary) (2003-).
Galarce, E., Williams, C., Roussos, A., & Bucci, W. (2003). Pacella Parent Child Center Multimedia Database for Developmental-Observational Studies. A poster presentation at the American Psychoanalytic Association Meeting, January 2004.
Lissa Weinstein is the author of a book for the general public, published Fall 2003. READING DAVID: A Mother and Son's Journey Through the Labyrinth of Dyslexia. Her co-author is her own son.
Leon Hoffman , When Daughter Becomes Mother: Inferences From Multiple Dyadic Parent-Child Groups. In Press, Psychoanalytic Inquiry Issue on Mothers and Daughters (Rosemary Balsam and Ruth Fischer, Issue Editors).
Leon Hoffman : Mothers' Ambivalence with their Babies and Toddlers: Manifestations of Conflicts with Aggression, Journal of The American Psychoanalytic Association 51(4): 1219-1240, 2003; Presented at The New York Psychoanalytic Society, January 13, 2004.
Anna Balas and Alicia Guttman: “The Impact of Nine Eleven through the Lens of the Child Psychoanalyst: A Study with Psychoanalytic Reflections, ” Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Fall 2003, Special Issue, Dialogues on Terror: Patients and Their Psychoanalysts and presented at the Third Annual Conference Of The New York Societies Of The International Psychoanalytic Association, September 11th: Psychoanalytic Reflections In The Second Year, November 9-10, 2002 (Discussed by Leon Hoffman ).
Patricia A. Nachman and Linda Mayes (Issue Editors): Infant Research. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Volume 23, Number 3, 2003.
Leon Hoffman , A Psychoanalytic-Oriented Approach as Primary and Secondary Prevention: Discussion of Joy Osofsky 's “P sychoanalytically Based Treatment for Traumatized Children and Families.” Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Patricia A. Nachman and Linda Mayes (Issue Editors) 23(3):544-552, 2003.
Anna Balas, Addressing the emotional aspects of learning differences, The Parent's League Review, 2003.
Valeria Villarán (Fullbright Fellow at The Pacella Parent Child Center from Fordham University : Basic Maternal Relational Schemas and Infant's Developmental Difficulties, May, 2003.
Leon Hoffman : Panelist at The Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine, “The Relevance of Parent-Infant Psychotherapy to Psychoanalysis” by Ilene S. Lefcourt, March 4, 2003.
Leon Hoffman and Susan Sherkow: Panelists at "Parent Infant programs: Dyadic and Multiple Dyadic Models in Clinical Work with Mothers and Infants (Zero-Three),” Discussion Group at The American Psychoanalytic Association, January 22, 2003.
Susan Sherkow: “Reflections on the Play State , Play Interruptions, and the Capacity to Play Alone" presented at the New York Psychoanalytic Society, January 14, 2003 and published in the Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis: 10, nos.3/4, December 2002.
Susan Sherkow: "The Investigation of behavioral correlates of the anal phase of libidinal development in children's play," at a Clinical Teach-in at the meetings of the World Mental Health Association, Amsterdam, July 2002 and at The New York Psychoanalytic Society, February 12, 2002.
Susan Sherkow: “Manifestations of Transference in Group Dynamics” presented at the Workshop of the Committee on Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis of the American Psychoanalytic Association, May 2002 and at the New York Psychoanalytic Society, February 12, 2002.
Leon Hoffman : A Multiple Dyadic Model: Psychoanalytic and Developmental Principles in Multiple Dyadic Groups with Mothers and Infants/Toddlers (Zero-Three) presented at the Workshop of the Committee on Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis of the American Psychoanalytic Association, May 2002, at the New York Psychoanalytic Society, February 12, 2002, and at The Harris Child Development Center of The Houston Galveston Institute, November 8, 2002.
Christopher Christian: “Linguistic indicators of mother's symbolic functioning,” presented at The New York Psychoanalytic Society, February 12, 2002.
Lissa Weinstein: Language and the developmental context. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 57, 2002.
Lissa Weinstein & Siever, L.: Review of the Neurobiology of Personality in the International Journal of Psychanalysis, 2002.
Erma Brenner: Psychoanalysis and Play. Presented at The New York Psychoanalytic Society April 17, 2001 and Published in Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis (2001) Volume 10(3 and 4):607-630.
Leon Hoffman : Pregnancy and Motherhood: Absence from psychoanalytic formulations of the psychology of women. Presented at The American Psychoanalytic Association, May 2002, The Department of Psychiatry Montreal General Hospital and Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, Quebec, English Branch (2001); and at The Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute (2001).
Christopher Christian: “A Longitudinal Study of the Relationship Between the Mother's Capacity to Symbolize and the Child's Development of Symbolic Functioning as Manifested in Play Sequences,” Pilot study presented at the Society for Psychoanalytic Research, June 2001, Buenos Aires.