EXPANDING THE EMPATHIC GRASP IN THE TREATMENT OF ANOREXIA NERVOSA: ADDING A NEUROSCIENCE PERSPECTIVE

Judith Rustin, L.C.S.W., is Faculty and Supervisor at The Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity in New York City.  She has published papers and presented nationally and internationally on integrating infant research and Intersubjectivity theory.  She is the author of Infant Research and Neuroscience at Work in Psychotherapy: Expanding the Clinical Repertoire, published by W.W. Norton in 2013 and Co- Author with Beatrice Beebe, S. Knoblauch and D. Sorter of Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment published in 2005. She is in Private Practice in New York City.
Judith Rustin, L.C.S.W. Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity 26 West 9th St, suite 8ENew York, NY Ferguson, L.C.S.W.15 West 12th St, suite 1GNew York, NY 10011(212)

Heather Ferguson, L.C.S.W., is Faculty and Supervisor at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, National Institute for the Psychotherapies, and Manhattan Institute in NYC.  She is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, and has chapters in Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis, Eds., Harris, Kalb, and Klebanoff, Routledge, 2016 and Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives from Analyst-Artists, Editor, Hagman, Routledge 2017.  She has a private practice in NYC.