Live Legacy Interview with Dr. Miriam Steele

MINDinMIND, APA Division 39 Section II, and The National Service Office for Nurse-Family Partnership & Child First present an interview with Dr. Miriam Steele, one of the world’s leading researchers and thinkers in the field of child mental health. Dr. Steele is a Professor of Psychology and the Director of Clinical Psychology at The New School for Social Research in New York City. She also co-directs the Center for Attachment Research.

In conversation with MINDinMIND’s Jane O’Rourke and Dr. Salam Soliman, Director of the Center for Prevention and Early Trauma Treatment at the National Service Office for Nurse-Family Partnership and Child First, Dr. Steele discusses her innovative work and latest ground-breaking research in the fields of attachment, intergenerational trauma, and adoption.

Several of Dr. Steele’s colleagues also join the conversation to reflect upon the impact of her work in child and family mental health. They include:

Dr. Howard Steele – Professor of Psychology, Director of Graduate Studies, and Co-Director (with Miriam Steele) of the Center for Attachment Research.

Tessa Baradon – Child Psychotherapist and former Director of the Parent Infant Project, Anna Freud
Centre

Jenny Kenrick – Consultant Child Psychotherapist and leading expert on adoption

Dr. Adrienne Harris – Supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

Dr. Wendy Olesker – Training and supervising analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute