“Watch Me!” A Testimonial to the Importance of Bearing Witness in Child Analysis

Gabrielle Silver, MD is an analyst and graduate of NYPSI, and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, Payne Whitney. After graduating from the triple board training program in Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Child Psychiatry that she began at Brown and completed at Mt. Sinai, she worked with Ted Shapiro in the Infancy Fellowship at Weill Cornell. She works with him and with Barbara Milrod on efficacy studies of psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adults with panic and anxiety disorders. From 2006 to 2014, she was Director of the Pediatric Psychiatry Consultation Liaison Service. Through her work there she has developed research with her colleagues in the pediatric intensive care unit. She developed the Cornell Assessment of Pediatric Delirium (CAPD), a screening tool for nurses to detect delirium, which has become the clinically recommended tool for use in pediatric critical care. She is currently a candidate at NYPSI in the Child and Adolescent Training Program and is grateful to Karen Gilmore for her supervision and guidance.
CONTACT Gabrielle Silver, MD dr.gabriellesilver@gmail.com 470 West End Avenue, Suite 1AA, New York, NY 10024, USA.

Karen Gilmore, MD is an adult, child, and adolescent psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and Training and Supervising Analyst at Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia. She has published a number of papers and chapters on play, developmental theory, adoption, sexual development and gender identity disorder, and attention deficit disorder. With coauthor Pamela Meersand, she has written three volumes: Normal Child and Adolescent Development: A Psychodynamic Primer (2013), The Little Book of Child and Adolescent Development (2014), and Play Therapy: A Psychodynamic Primer for the Treatment of Young Children (2017).