Section II: Childhood and Adolescence

Members are child clinicians who practice psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy and who conduct research in the area of child psychoanalysis. A major goal is to increase, through the development of study groups, communications among section members.

Membership in Section II is open to members of APA, Division 39, students, and those in affiliated mental fields.

Visit Website  Join Section II

Section II Board of Directors

• President: Joseph Mikulka, LCSW-R

• Past President: Jordan Bate, PhD

• Secretary: Salam Soliman, PhD

• Treasurer: Stephanie Kors, PhD

• Member-at-Large; Interim Division 39 Rep.: Jessica Sharkey, PhD

• Larry Rosenberg, PhD
• Gretchen Schmutz, PhD 
• Ken Barish, PhD
• Michael A. Tate, PhD
• Karen Weise, PhD
• Anna Marie Baldauf, PhD

Section Publications

• 2010-11 Section II Report (PDF, 14KB)

• After Trauma, Hidden or Obvious: Possibilities for Treatment

• The Inner Predator: Trauma and Dissociation in Bodily Self-Harm (PDF, 222KB)

• Psychic Trauma, Annihilation, Anxieties and Psychodynamic Treatment (PDF, 96KB)

Section Awards

Lifetime Service Award

Anni Bergman, PhD