2011/12, Issue 4, Winter

Articles:

Briefly Noted ~ Members Recommend

Parenting for Peace: Raising the Next Generation of Peacemakers, Marcy Axness, PhD (2012). Boulder, CO, Sentient Publications. 434 pages, ISBN 978-1591811763

Parenting for Peace is a timely and necessary book for the world's troubled times, but at the same time, it's nothing less than an adventure into exciting new findings that compel us to explore and reinvent ourselves, and raise peaceful and peacemaking children in the process.
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Media Watch

This section of the APPPAH Newsletter is intended to draw attention to items in the news that are pertinent to prenatal and perinatal psychology. APPPAH does not necessarily agree with, or vouch for, the scientific worthiness of any of the news items mentioned here. We mean merely to take note of what is going on, so that you may.

Study Shows Connection Between Armed Conflict and Birth Weights
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Conference Review: Do Babies Remember Trauma

Sponsored by the Margaret S. Mahler Foundation and The Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. The Miller Theater, Columbia University, New York, NY.

On October 1, 2011 Columbia University's Miller Theater was filled with about 200 therapists, social workers, psychiatrists and researchers for a day-long conference to discuss new evidence that suggests consciousness and nociception during prenatal development. A wealth of discussion regarding the implications for advanced medicine, such as prenatal surgery, was also introduced, as well as potential challenges for the integration of this thinking into mainstream knowledge.
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