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Susan Coates, Ph.D.

Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology in Psychiatry
Teaching Faculty
Tel: 212-580-1423
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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.

Courses 
Critical Thinking I: development—the relevance of child observation for psychoanalysis
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