AACAP Logo

Login  |  Help  |  About Us
53rd Annual Meeting Program Schedule
Presidential Interview

Friday, October 27
11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (open)
Thomas F. Anders, M.D., AACAP President, interviews Daniel N. Stern, M.D.

Professor Stern is currently Professor Honoraire in the Faculté de Psychologie, Université de Genève, Switzerland; Adjunct rofessor in the Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical School—New York Hospital; and Lecturer at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalysis.

Dr. Stern received his training at Harvard University; Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Bellvue Hospital; The National Institutes of Health; New York Psychiatric Institute and Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University; and the Columbia
Psychoanalytic Center.

For more than 30 years, he has worked on the interface between research and practice; developmental psychology and psychodynamic psychotherapy; infant observation/ experimentation and the clinical reconstruction of his early experience; and the interpersonal and intrapsychic perspectives. This work has served a bridging and integrating function in furthering our understanding of clinical theory, practice, and development.

Professor Stern is the author of six books, most of which have been translated into more than 10 languages: The First relationship: Infant and Mother; The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology; The Journal of a Baby; The Motherhood Constellation: A Unifying View of Parent-Infant Psychotherapies; The Birth of a Mother; and The Present Mother in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life. He is the author of several hundred journal articles and chapters.

Dr. Stern has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark; The University of Mons Hinault, Belgium; and the University of Palermo, Italy.