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Stanley Greenspan

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Stanley Greenspan, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Behavioral Sciences, and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School and a practicing child psychiatrist. He is also Chairman of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders and is also a Supervising Child Psychoanalyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale University School of Medicine, Dr. Greenspan was the founding president of ZERO TO THREE: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families and former director of the National Institute of Mental Health.s Clinical Infant Developmental Program and Mental Health Study Center.

Recognized internationally as the foremost authority on mental health and disorders in infants and young children, the developmental model he formulated guides their care throughout the world and has led to the formation of regional councils and networks in most major American cities. He has testified before Congress numerous times on policies affecting children and families. Among his many national honors, he has received the Ittleson Prize, the American Psychiatric Association.s highest award for child psychiatry research. He also received the Blanche F. Ittleson award from the American Orthopsychiatric Association for outstanding contributions to American mental health, making him the first individual to receive both Ittleson prizes. He recently received the Mary S. Sigourney Award for distinguished contributions to psychoanalysis.

Dr. Greenspan is the author or editor of over thirty-eight books for both scholarly and general audiences and one hundred professional articles and chapters. His pioneering works, which have been translated into over a dozen languages, include The Growth of the Mind, Building Healthy Mind, The Secure Child, The Child with Special Needs (with Serena Wieder, Ph.D.), The Irreducible Needs of Children (with T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.), Infancy and Early Childhood: The Practice of Clinical Assessment and Intervention with Emotional and Developmental Challenges, Intelligence and Adaptation: An Integration of Psychoanalytic and Piagetian Developmental Psychology, Developmentally Based Psychotherapy, The Development of the Ego, First Feelings with Nancy Thorndike Greenspan), and Playground Politics and The Challenging Child. His latest book is The First Idea: How Symbols, Language and Intelligence Evolved in Early Primates and Humans.

His formulations of emotional milestones and related strategies to facilitate emotional growth have been featured in a PBS Nova documentary, "Life's First Feelings" which received the American Psychological Association's award for Best Educational Program. They are the basis for a videotape entitled "Exploring First Feelings," which is shown to new mothers in over 200 hospitals and the videotape, "Floor Time," produced by Scholastic, Inc., and used by educators, childcare providers and parents across the country. In addition, his work has been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN news; on ABC's Nightline; on PBS.s News Hour; and in Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.