What is a Cadence? Graduation Speech, 2012

Abstract

This issue of Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy (JICAP) introduces the final papers of students who completed the Parent-Infant Program, most of them in spring 2012. These papers are final in the sense that each student explores and remarks on the work they did in the Parent-Infant Program; however, these papers also represent the beginning of the students’ work with mothers and babies. What follows are my words to the class of 2012 on the occasion of their graduation ceremony.

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What is a Cadence? Graduation Speech, 2012

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Anni Bergman

Anni Bergman is the Founding Director of the Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program. She is affiliated with the The Contemporary Freudian Society, the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, the International Psychoanalytic Association, and New York University’s postdoctoral program in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. In the 1980s, as a member of the faculty at City University of New York, Dr. Bergman co-founded and directed a treatment center for preschool inner-city children with severe attachment disorders. She has continued to practice and teach dyadic work with autistic children and their primary caretakers. Some of this work has been published in her collected papers, Ours, Yours, Mine: Mutuality and the Emergence of the Separate Self, which was written in collaboration with Maria F. Fahey.