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.

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.

• 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