ONLY 200 PLACES AVAILABLE IN PRESENCE
6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF PERINATAL PSYCHOLOGY

MILAN

Scientific Director: Dr. Marcello Florita

Rational

The experience of breastfeeding is one of the very first and instinctual forms of contact that the newborn experiences with the mother and with the world.

In addition to satisfying a primary need linked to nutrition, breastfeeding constitutes, due to its physiology made up of skin-to-skin contact and protective hormonal mechanisms, a very profound contribution to the creation of a psychological relationship between mother and child. For Winnicott, an English pediatrician and psychoanalyst, breastfeeding represents the first form of communication capable of influencing subsequent communicative and relational experiences: it is not simply a matter of offering milk, but of creating a primary bond. The same principle was confirmed by the research of the American psychologist Harlow as early as 1959, through the observation of baby monkeys who found themselves preferring synthetic fur mothers to iron dummies equipped with a feeding bottle. In this way, it was demonstrated that already in the first months of life, the attachment bond develops not only due to a desire for nutrition, but also due to a need for contact and care.

Breastfeeding is all of this: contact, communication, listening, nutrition, comfort, confirmation and relationship.

Our perinatal psychology conference intends to explore, through the most recent scientific evidence, the topic of breastfeeding and nutrition from a psychological and relational point of view, offering an opportunity for multidisciplinary reflection on a topic that is as current as it is debated.

Dr. Marcello Florita
Dr. Claudia Proserpio
Scientific Committee

Call for Abstract

We are a group of psychologists, doctors, obstetricians and psychotherapists who have worked in perinatal psychology for years. Our group is named “Area Perinatale SIPRe” and we are part of a psychoanalytic society who have organised many highly specialised formative experiences regarding perinatal psychology. Some of us work as researchers or clinicians in private practices and others in public hospitals all over Italy, for example in Bologna, Bergamo, Monza and Milano.
This group of professionals has thought, created and organised the sixth edition of the International Conference of Perinatal Psychology. Marcello Florita, who is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and author of a perinatal psychology manual, some essays and a novel, is the chief of this group.
This year, as every year, we are organising an event, open to many professionals, which has the purpose to spread a serious and scientific perinatal culture.

Have you worked in perinatal psychology in public or private establishements, particularly about nursing?
Would you like to present a poster that explains your work? Or would you like to take part of a round table during the conference?

Send a short abstract of maximum 3000 characters (including spaces) presenting your work to florita.marcello@hsr.it, pointing out if you are interested in presenting your poster or participating in the round table.
Every submission will be evaluated and the most interesting ones will be included in the conference.
The posters must be printed independently and delivered to the Organizational Secretariat at the start of the event.
The format of the poster must be 70×100 cm​.

SUBMISSIONS MUST BE SENT BEFORE SEPTEMBER 30TH 2024

Participants

The conference is aimed at Psychologist, Psychotherapist, GP, Psychiatrist, Gynecologist, Neurologist, Child Neuropsychiatrist, Pediatrician, Neonatologist, Family Doctor, Midwife, Nurse, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Technician, Professional Educator.