Childhood trauma, unconscious conflict and developmental transformation

Author Harold P. Blum, MD, is a training and supervising analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education affiliated with New York University School of Medicine. He is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, executive director emeritus of the Sigmund Freud Archives, and president of the Psychoanalytic Research and Development Fund. He is also past editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, past vice president of the International Psychoanalytical Association, and retired clinical professor of psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine. Dr Blum is author of more than 170 psychoanalytic papers and several books. He is the recipient of numerous awards and lectureships, including the inaugural Sigourney Award, and Mahler, Hartmann, and Lorand prizes; the S. Freud lectures in New York, London, Vienna, and Frankfurt; the A. Freud, Hartmann, Brill, Friend, and Sperling Lectures; two plenary addresses to the American Psychoanalytic Association; and the Robert Waelder Memorial Lecture, Philadelphia. In addition, he is chair of five symposia on psychoanalysis and art, Florence, Italy.
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