The Frightened Child - Danger, Safety, and the Risk of Closeness

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This online Zoom event will explore the link between childhood wounds and adult love, with a special focus on how disorganized attachment shapes later intimate relationships. Through a clinical tale, Atlas introduces The Frightened Child—a dissociated self-state that develops when a child learns that attachment figures can be sources of both love and harm. This state is characterized by the paradox of simultaneous longing for and fear of closeness. We will discuss toxic nourishment, the fantasy of reparation, the dialectic between safety and risk, and future struggles with intimacy. 

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Dr. Galit Atlas is on the faculty at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is the author of the books The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing and Belonging in Psychoanalysis and Dramatic Dialogue: Contemporary Clinical Practice (co-authored with Lewis Aron) and the editor and contributor to When Minds Meet: The Work of Lewis Aron. Her last book, Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients and the Legacy of Trauma, is an international bestseller, translated into 27 languages. Atlas serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and of Psychoanalytic Perspectives. She is a recipient of the André François Award, the NADTA Research Award, and the Gradiva Award. She is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in New York City and teaches and lectures throughout the United States and internationally.

Learn more about Dr. Galit Atlas and her work: www.galitatlas.com

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This online Zoom event will explore the link between childhood wounds and adult love, with a special focus on how disorganized attachment shapes later intimate relationships. Through a clinical tale, Atlas introduces The Frightened Child—a dissociated self-state that develops when a child learns that attachment figures can be sources of both love and harm. This state is characterized by the paradox of simultaneous longing for and fear of closeness. We will discuss toxic nourishment, the fantasy of reparation, the dialectic between safety and risk, and future struggles with intimacy. 

Book Launch Special Event Pricing

Registration for this event includes:

To qualify for student pricing, you must use an email address ending in .edu.

Dr. Galit Atlas is on the faculty at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is the author of the books The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing and Belonging in Psychoanalysis and Dramatic Dialogue: Contemporary Clinical Practice (co-authored with Lewis Aron) and the editor and contributor to When Minds Meet: The Work of Lewis Aron. Her last book, Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients and the Legacy of Trauma, is an international bestseller, translated into 27 languages. Atlas serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and of Psychoanalytic Perspectives. She is a recipient of the André François Award, the NADTA Research Award, and the Gradiva Award. She is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in New York City and teaches and lectures throughout the United States and internationally.

Learn more about Dr. Galit Atlas and her work: www.galitatlas.com