Karen PRONER

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

• B.A. Psychology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, 1966.
• M.S., Educational Psychology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, 1974.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

• Tavistock Child Analytic Training, qualified 1979.
• Tavistock Adult Analytic Training, qualified  1995.

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Member of the International Psychoanalytic Association 2001
• Licensed as a Psychoanalyst in the State of New York 2003
• Member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists, (ACP), 1979.
•  Full member of the London Centre for Psychotherapy, (LCP) training analyst, 1990.
• Full member of the British Association of Psychotherapists, 1994.(BAP).
• Member of the British Confederation of Psychoanalytice Psychotherapists,(BCP), 1994.
• Member of the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists, (TCP). To present
• Member and Faculty of New York Institute of Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR), 2001-to present
•  Member of the Freudian Society, New York, 2003- to present
• Member of American Psychoanalytic Association 2014

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Private Practice in London  1978-2001
• 1967- Research Assistant, Institute of Education, Child Development Department, University of London
• 1967-69 Hampstead Clinic,London, Nursery teacher in Laboratory Nursery School, research assistant to Dorothy Burlingham (research on blind children).
• 1967-70Bellevue Hospital, New York University Medical School, New York , head of  research nursery of psychotic children.
• 1970-72 Master’s Children Center, New York, Margaret Mahler Unit; nursery teacher in therapeutic research unit of autistic children
• 1972-74 PutnamChildren’s Center, Boston, Clinical Director of the Group Therapy Unit
• 1974-75 Aylesbury Child Psychiatry Unit, Child Psychotherapist
• 1975-83 Charing Cross Hospital, Child Psychiatry, Senior Child Psychotherapist
• 1991-92 Charing Cross Hospital, Child Psychiatry, Consultant Child Psychotherapist.
• 1988-2001 Visiting faculty , Tavistock Centre
• 1997-2000 Great Ormond Hospital, Mildred Creak Unit, Consultant to the Staff
• 1990-2001 Centro Studi Martha Harris di Firenze, Child Psychotherapy Program in Florence Italy. Faculty member and administrator.
• Private Practice in New York, since 2001.

TEACHING POSITIONS

• Tavistock Centre, University of East London Associate Professor, Infant Observation, Theoretical Seminars in departments of Child and Family,Faculty of Marital Therapy , University of East London, masters degree in Psychoanalytic Theory
• BAP Training Supervisor, Clinical and Theoretical Seminars, Child Psychoanalytic
• LCP Training Supervisor, Clinical and Theoretical Seminars
• CAP Training Supervisor
• Copenhagen , Observation course for adult psychoanalysts
• Teaching Faculty of IPTAR Psychoanalytic Program
• Teaching Faculty of Freudian Society Psychoanalytic Program
• Visiting faculty to Columbia Child Psychoanalytic Program
• Faculty member and Training Supervisor of Columbia Parent/Infant Program
• Faculty Member and Training Supervisor  of the IPTAR/Freudian Society Parent Infant Program
• Faculty Member and Training Supervisor of the IPTAR Child Psychotherapy Training
• Faculty Member and Training Supevisor of the Freudian Society Child Psychoanalytic Program
• Faculty Member and Faculty Consultant to Centro Studi Martha Harris; child analytic raining in Florence Italy  (1986- 2008)
• Faculty Member and Training Supervisor Contemporary Freudian Society Child Analysis Training

COMMITTEE POSITIONS

• London Centre, Training Therapists Committee
• CAP Training Committee (Started a London Adult Psychotherapy Training)
• National Association of Child Psychotherapists, Chairman of Program Planning Committee
• National Association of Child Psychotherapists, Executive Committee
• Curriculum committee of child Psychotherapy Program at IPTAR
• Curriculum committee of Freudian Society Adult Psychoanalytic Program
• Member ofIPTAR outreach and public relations committee.
• Member of the IPA Committee on Psychoanalytic work with Families and Couples
• Member of the IPA committee on Health
• Board member of AIPCF Representative  of English speaking membership

PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS

• “Working with parents in a Pediatric Unit”, presented at the Esher conference, 1988.
• “Trapped Inside”:An Exploration of Projective Identification, presented to The South London Psychotherapy Group, 1992.
• “Understanding Bodily States through Bion’s Theory of Bizarre Objects: Treatment of a Borderline Latency Child, Public Lecture, Florence Italy, 1995.
• Learning and Teaching the Theories of Melanie Klein, Journal of Child Psychotherapy Volume 24, no 3.
• Proto-mental Synchrony: Some Thoughts on the Earliest Identification Processes in a Neonate, Infant Observation Journal , Spring 2000.
• Review of Psychotic States in Children in Child Psychotherapy Trust News, 2000
• Review of The Borderline Child by Trevor Lubbe, for British Journal of Psychotherapy,  2001.
• “Terror, Persecution and Dread” presented at IPTAR International Conference on Terrorism  May, 2002.  Published in a book: Terrorism.  Pace University Press 2003. Also Presentedat New York IPA conference on Terrorism
• “Mystery, Turbulence and Passion in the Aesthetic Conflict and its use in work with Mothers and Infants” given in Barcelona at International Conference October 2002, also given  as a Public Lecture for Centro Martha Harris Studi in Florence.
• To be published.
• Infant Observation Journal 2003, Editor
• Clinical Symposium; “Terror Persecution and Dread Revisited”;Paper given for TERRORISM AND THE PSYCHOANALYTIC SPACE, May 2002,
• “Mystery, Turbulence and Passion in the Aesthetic Conflict  and its use in work with adults in psychoanalysis and work with mothers and infants” given in Barcelona at International Conference October 2002, also given  as a Public Lecture for Centro Martha Harris Studi in Florence.
• To be published.
• “Trauma revisited;  an analysis of a nine year old.”Annual Child Analysis Colloquiem
• Freudian Society Child Psychoanalysis Program, 2003
• “The Primary Caesura: The Babies Earliest Experiences that start the lifelong process of Weaning. Seen through work with adults and infant/mother work.”  presented at the Conference RUPTURE AND REPAIR March 2004
• “Life Space and intrusive Identification: Thoughts on Identification Processes in the Analysis of a Borderline Patient” given to IPTAR group 2006
• “Not Thinking: The Horryfying Bizarre Object World of a Five Year Old Girl” given to William Alanson White Institute, 2007.
• “Bion’s Baby’s Fear of Dying” Paper given at the Bion International conference in Boston 2011, and at the International Infant Observation Conference in Dakar Senegal 2012, and to be published in the International Infant Observation Journal in 2013.
• “Melanie Klein and Child Analysis: Principles and Projective Identification” Chapter to be published in Child Analysis book compiled by relational analysts from William Alanson White Institute. To be published in 2016.