Phyllis Cohen, PhD, is a psychologist/psychoanalyst practicing in New York City. She works with mothers and infants, children, adolescents, adults, and couples and families. She is a Clinical Supervisor at the NYU Post Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and has taught courses in child, marital and family therapy, and trauma, at many institutes, including the Trauma Program at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Cohen has published numerous professional papers and has co-authored with Beebe and Lachman The Mother-Infant Interaction Picture Book: Origins of Attachment (Norton, 2016). She has also co-edited: Mothers, Infants and Young Children of September 11th: A Primary Prevention Project, (Beebe, Cohen, Sossin & Markese, Routledge, 2012), and Healing after Parent Loss in Childhood and Adolescence: Therapeutic Interventions and Theoretical Considerations, (Cohen, Sossin & Ruth, Rowman and Littlefield, 2014). Dr. Cohen is the Founder and Director of the New York Institute for Psychotherapy Training in Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence (NYIPT), and together with Dr. Beatrice Beebe, she co-directed the World Trade Center Project for women who were pregnant and lost their husbands on September 11th 2001. Dr. Cohen is currently serving as the Clinical Director of the Building Blocks Program where she trains therapists to work dyadically with birth mothers and young children in the foster care system. In 2019 Dr. Cohen received an award for Outstanding Service in the Field of Trauma Psychology from APA Division 56, Trauma Psychology.
K. Mark Sossin, PhD is Professor Emeritus, and Director of the Mind, Movement, Interaction, and Development Lab, Department of Psychology, Pace University. He is a clinical psychologist, an adult, child, and adolescent psychoanalyst, and a couples, family, and parent-infant psychotherapist. Dr. Sossin is a Training Analyst and Faculty at the Contemporary Freudian Society; he is a Clinical Faculty and Supervisor at the Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and Child/Adolescent Psychotherapy Postgraduate Programs; and he on the Faculty at the Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Psychotherapy Training Program. Dr. Sossin has edited, co-authored and written numerous professional books and papers, including The Meaning of Movement: Clinical and Developmental Applications of the Kestenberg Movement Profile (Routledge, 2018), Healing after Parent Loss in Childhood and Adolescence: Therapeutic Interventions and Theoretical Considerations, (Cohen, Sossin and Ruth, Eds., Rowman and Littlefield, 2014), and Mothers, Infants and Young Children of September 11, 2001: A Primary Prevention Project (Beebe, Cohen, Sossin and Markese, Eds., Routledge, 2012). At Pace University, Dr. Sossin served as Co-Director of the Parent-Infant/Toddler Research Nursery, and as Director of the Ph.D. Program in Clinical Psychology (Health Emphasis). He currently serves as Vice-President of Child Development Research at Pace.
