Susan Coates, Ph.D.
Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology in Psychiatry
Teaching Faculty
Private Office
205 West 89th St.
New York, NY 10024
Areas of Interest
Special areas of interest, child trauma, attachment, and gender. Dr. Coates is an editor with Dan Schechter and Jane Rosenthal, September 11: Trauma and Human Bonds. She is a co-founding Director with Karen Gilmore of the Parent- Infant Psychotherapy Training Program at Columbia Psychoanalytic and is on the Board of Directors of the Margaret Mahler Foundation. She teaches a course on Intergenerational Transfer of Trauma and Resilience. Her Expert Interview on Trauma in Children: Considerations for Care after Hurricane Katrina is available at Medscape Psychiatry . http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/513888
Selected Presentations and Publications
Coates, SW and Gaensbauer, TJ. 2009 Event Trauma in Early Childhood: Symptoms, Assessment, Intervention. In: Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health. Editors, Mary Margaret Gleason and Daniel S. Schechter. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America.. July;18(3):611-26.
Coates, SW, & Schechter, DS. 2004. Preschoolers’ Traumatic Stress Post-9/11: Relational and Developmental Perspectives. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 27, 3, 473-489.
Coates, S. John Bowlby and Margaret S. Mahler: Their Lives and Theories. 2004. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 2004, 52:571-601.
Coates, S. W. Having a mind of one’s own and holding the other in mind: Discussion of “Mentalization and the changing aims of child psychoanalysis” by Peter Fonagy and Mary Target, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, , 1998, 8:115-148.
Coates, S.W. & Moore, M.S. The complexity of early trauma: Representation and transformation. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 1997, 17:286-311.