Marianne Kris Memorial Lecture 


The Marianne Kris lecture is a memorial to her, a much-loved and respected leading child analyst in her day, a great classical clinician and author of many papers, in the footsteps of Anna Freud from the ideological point of view. The Marianne Kris Lecture is presented at the Annual Meeting by selection of the sitting ACP President. 


2026 Charles Parks, PhD
Therapeutic Action and Progress in Analysis: A Child struggles with Death, Life and Change
2025 Lee Ascherman, MD
Out of the Woods
2024 Judy Yanof, MD
Play, Dissociation, and the Life of Pi
2023 Sydney Anderson, PhD
Looking through the hourglass: The importance of our words and actions in contemporary child psychoanalysis
2022 Jill Miller, Ph.D.
Some Thoughts on Interpretation in Child Psychoanalysis
2021 Rona Knight, Ph.D.
Turning Psychoanalysis On It's Head: Examining Historical Theories of Child Development
2020 Claudia Lament, Ph. D.
Useful Untruths: Pluralism in Child Analysis
2019 James Herzog, M.D.
Child Psychoanalysis and Social Justice
2018 Carla Elliott-Neely, Ph.D.
The Role of the Analyst as a Developmental Object In Therapeutic Action
2017 Alan Sugarman, Ph.D.
Promoting a Sense of Self-As-Agent in Child Psychoanalysis
2016 Anne Alvarez, Ph.D.
The Thinking Heart: Three Levels of Analytic Work with Severely Disturbed Children
2015 Claudia Lament, Ph.D.
Inventing the Future
2014 Wendy Olesker, Ph.D., P.C.
The Development and Transformation of Aggression In One Research Subject Over Fifty Years
2013 Ruth Karush, M.D.
Postscripts: Reflections on the Post-Termination Phase
2012 Paul Brinich, Ph.D.
Developmental Lines and Phases in Child Analysis
2011 Kristen Dahl, Ph.D.
Bitter Harvest: The Centrality of the Oedipal Narrative in the Mind
2010 Stanley Leiken, M.D.
People, Psychoanalysis and Huckleberry Finn
2009 Denia Barrett, MSW
Mum's the Word: Are We Becoming Silent on Masturbation?
2008 Leon Hoffman, M.D.
Separation and Castration Reactions: The Impact of Opposite- Sex Siblings
2007 Thomas F. Barrett, Ph.D.
Manic Defenses Against Loneliness in Adolescence
2006 Judith F. Chused, M.D.
The Development of a Psychoanalyst
2005 Theodore Jacobs, M.D.
On the Adolescent Neurosis
2004 Robert Tyson, M.D.
Helen Keller-A Psychoanalytic Enigma
2003 Arthur Rosenbaum, M.D.
Writing About Treatment Process: The Writer and the Psychoanalyst
2002 Donald Rosenblitt, M.D.
Translating Psychoanalysis from the Playroom to the Classroom: Opportunities and Choices
2001 Moisy Shopper, M.D.
The Illusion of Parental Celibacy, A Necessary Phase in  Adolescent Development
2000 Kerry Kelly Novick and Jack Novick, Ph.D.
Reclaiming the Land
1999 Peter Blos, Jr., M.D.
Countertransference: Problems and Issues in the Analysis of Children
1998 Donald Cohen, M.D.
Integration in the Development of the Mind: Anna Freud's Developmental Lines and Concept of Mental Harmony as a Framework for Understanding the Neuropsychiatric Disorder of Childhood
1997 Peter Fonagy, Ph.D. and Mary Target, Ph.D.
The Changing Aims of Child Psychoanalysis: The Interface with Empirical Data
1996 Henry Seidenberg, M.D., Harry Trosman, M.D., Samuel Weiss, M.D., and Colin Webber
Jim Dine: Childhood Stories
1995 Heiman Van Dam, M.D.
The Childhood of Anne Frank and its Relationship to her Diary Writing
1994 Robert Furman, M.D.
Some Aspects of the Analyst-Analysand Relationship
1993 E. James Anthony, M.D.
Adolescence as a Target of Psychoanalytic Inquiry
1992 Jules Glenn, M.D.
The Child is the Father of the Man: A Discussion of Wordworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" and his Secret Sharers
1991 Ema Furman
On Feeling and Being Felt With
1990 Eleanor Galenson, M.D.
Gender Identity Disorder: A Misnomer
1989 Peter Blos, Ph.D.
A Reformation of the Psychoanalytic Theory of Adolescence with a Discussion of its Implications for Clinical Work with Children, Adolescents, and Adults
1988 Anne Marie Sandler
Comments on Phobic Mechanisms in Childhood
1987 Samuel Ritvo, M.D.
Longitudinal Study Revisited: A Dynamic Biography from Infant Observations, Childhood Analysis, and Follow-Up to Mid-30's Maturity
1986 Peter Neubauer, M.D.
Disturbances in Object Representation
1985 Marjorie Harley, Ph.D.
Child Analysis: A Retrospective
1984 Hansi Kennedy
Growing Up With a Handicapped Sibling
1983 Albert J. Solnit, M.D.
Preparing
1982 Sally Provence, M.D.
Struggling Against Deprivation: A Case Study



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