"Mothers, Infants and Young Children of
September 11, 2001:
A Primary Prevention Project"

edited by Beatrice Beebe
Phyllis Cohen, K. Mark Sossin, & Sara Markese

Beatrice Beebe

Dear fellow IARPP members,

My collaborators and I are pleased to announce the upcoming publication of our new book on the women who were pregnant and widowed in the attack on the United States on 9/11. The book charts the impact of that devastating event on the lives of these women, their infants and young children. Please find more details below.

Beatrice Beebe

The group of chapters presented in this volume represents ten years of involvement of a group of eight core therapists, working originally with approximately forty families who suffered the loss of husbands and fathers on September 11, 2001. The project focuses on the families of women who were pregnant and widowed in the disaster, or of women who were widowed with an infant born in the previous year.  

This book maps the support and services provided without cost to the families by the primary prevention project – the ‘September 11, 2001 Mothers, Infants and Young Children Project’ – organised by a highly trained group of therapists specialising in adult, child, mother-infant and family treatment, as well as in nonverbalcommunication. These therapists are Beatrice Beebe, Phyllis Cohen, Anni Bergman, Sally Moskowitz, K. Mark Sossin, Rita Reiswig, Suzi Tortora and Donna Demetri Friedman. The demands of the crisis led these therapists to expand on their psychoanalytic training, fostering new approaches to meeting the needs of these families. They sought out these families, offering support groups for mothers and their infants and young children in the mothers’ own neighbourhoods. They also brought the families to mother-child videotaped play sessions at the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University, followed by video feedback and consultation sessions.

In 2011, marking the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Center tragedy, the Project continues to provide services without cost for these mothers who lost their husbands, for their infants who are now approximately ten years old, and for the siblings of these children.

 This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy.

• Table of Contents
  
• Introduction Part I: The Project
  
• Part II: Mothers and Children in the Early Years of the Support Groups
• Part III: Themes Evolving From the Support Groups
• Part IV: Mothers and Children in the Video Laboratory Context
• Part V: The Feedback Sessions
• Part VI: Mother-Child Treatment with a Team Approach
• Part VII: The Therapists’ Process
• Part VIII: Perspectives on Early Trauma: Neuropsychological and Clinical Literature Part
• IX: Commentary Conclusion
  

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